THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS IN DAMAGE CONTROL.

GOVERNOR JAY PRE PRITZKER ALONG WITH OTHER DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS.

RIGHT?

THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY MEETING WITH THE PRESIDENT.

NOW IT COMES AMID GROWING CALLS FOR PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN TO STEP ASIDE FOLLOWING LAST WEEK'S SHAKY PERFORMANCE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE.

DEALING WITH EVERYTHING WE HAVE TO DO FINALLY BEAT MEDICARE.

THANK YOU.

PRESIDENT BIDEN.

I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT HE SAYS.

THE END OF THIS AND SAID DON'T THINK HE KNOWS WHAT HE SAID.

HE THAT WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

UNION, THE MORALS OF AN ALLEY CAT.

NOW CONCERNS OVER THE AGES OF BOTH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES IS NOTHING NEW AS IT HAS BECOME A FOCAL POINT OF THIS ELECTION CYCLE.

BUT WHAT ARE NORMAL SIGNS OF AGING AND WHAT COULD SIGNAL MORE SEVERE COGNITIVE HEALTH ISSUES?

JOINING US NOW WITH MORE IS DOCTOR JUDY MCCOY, A PROFESSOR OF GERIATRIC MEDICINE AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.

DOCTOR MCCOY, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING LET'S GET RIGHT INTO IT.

SO WE JUST SAW IN THAT CLIP THERE THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS CAUSED A LITTLE BIT CONCERNED OVER HOW WELL, BUT HE'S AGING FOLLOWING LAST WEEK'S DEBATE WITH FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, HIS VOICE WAS RASPY AT TIMES HE SEEMED TO KIND OF TRAIL AWFUL ANSWERING QUESTIONS.

WOULD YOU SAY THAT TO BAIT NIGHT WAS A REAL CAUSE FOR CONCERN OR DO YOU THINK IT WAS JUST SIMPLY HIS PERFORMANCE?

I THINK THAT DEBATE NIGHT WAS SIMPLY HIS PERFORMANCE.

I DO NOT SEE AS A RENEWED CALL TO REMOVE A REASON TO REMOVE THE PRESIDENT OR TO ASK HIM TO STEP DOWN YOU KNOW, AS I WATCHED THAT DEBATE, I KEPT THINKING WHY IS THE PRESIDENT TO BE EATING?

HE SEEMED ILL. AND MAJOR.

I LEARNED THAT YOU HAD A COLD.

HE SEEMED AS YOU MIGHT'VE BEEN TIRED.

AND THOSE THINGS SINGLE BY THEMSELVES OR TOGETHER CAN MAKE OLDER ADULT UNDER THE STRESSFUL SITUATION APPEAR WORSE THAN THEY REALLY ARE.

AND WHAT ABOUT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP?

HE'S ONLY 4 YEARS YOUNGER THAN PRESIDENT BIDEN, BUT HIS PERFORMANCE SEEMED TO BE A LITTLE BIT BETTER.

HE HAD A LOT MORE ENERGY.

YOU KNOW THE PROBLEM AGAIN, AS I SAID, I BELIEVE THE PRESIDENT WAS ILL AND I'M GLAD I THOUGHT ABOUT THAT BEFORE HER THAT HE WAS BECAUSE I WAS INFLUENCED BY WHAT WAS IN THE MEDIA.

NOW LET'S GO TO A PARENT SAYS, YOU KNOW HOW SOME TIME TO SEE OLDER PERSON WALKING AND TONIGHT BEGIN THEIR HEADS A LITTLE BIT MORE.

AGREE THAT WE GO WITH A FRAIL PERSON.

BUT WE KNOW THAT LOOKING AT SOMEONE DOESN'T DEFINE FRAILTY, DOESN'T DEFINE HOW THE OUR COGNITIVE IN TERMS OF DO THINKING.

I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE PRESIDENT, FORMER PRESIDENT LOOKED STRONG.

IT'S TALLER.

HE'S BIGGER NEEDS MORE GRUFF.

BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT HE IS BETTER CALLED WITH TO BILLY AND THE CURRENT PRESIDENT IS.

SO HOW WOULD YOU MEASURE WHAT COGNITIVE HEALTH LOOKS LIKE?

YOU KNOW, COGNITIVE HEALTH HAS A LOT OF DIFFERENT AND NEW THINGS ABOUT IT.

WHEN IT COMES MENTION CALLED IN HEALTH.

I NORMALLY WANT TO HEAR FROM THE PERSON WHO'S BEING MEASURED.

SOMETIMES PRESS WAS BEING MEASURED.

DOESN'T BELIEVE THAT THE PROBLEM AND THEN WE HAVE BYSTANDERS.

SO ONE 0ND YET.

BUT BYSTANDERS WHAT'S GOING ON?

A PERSON REPEATING SENTENCES IS THE PERSON WELL GETTING COMMON THINGS AND GETTING INTO THE WHOLE DID NOT RECALLING IT LATER I ALSO LOOK TO SEE IF THE PERSON HAVING DIFFERENT WAYS OF SHUTTING CAN JUMP AND THAT'S CHANGED BEHAVIOR PATTERNS HAVE TEAMED FOR THOSE AND THEN I START THINKING SIT SIT DOWN AND GET TO DOING OBJECTIVE AND THAT'S LITTLE EARLY.

I SAID LOOKING AT SOMEONE DOESN'T DEFINE WHO THEY LET'S GO TO OBJECT TO TESTING AND WE DO SOMETHING CALLED CALL EVALUATIONS.

WE USE AN INSTRUMENT CALLED THE THE MONTREAL ASSESSMENT PAST.

AND THAT WILL GIVE US OBJECT TO FINDING SOME NUMBERS AS A SCREENING TEST, THOUGH, NOT A CONFIRMATORY TEST AND THE CUT OFF.

IT'S GOING TO BE 26 OUT OF 30 BEING ON ANYTHING BELOW THAT.

25 24 GOING DOWN.

IT'S GOING TO DO NOT NORMAL.

THAT ONLY THE BEGINNING.

SO IT MAKES YOU SAY SOMETHING MIGHT BE GOING ON.

LET'S DIG A LITTLE DEEPER AND WE GO INTO DOING ON ABOUT BLOOD TESTS TO LOOK FOR ANY DEFICIENCIES IN CERTAIN VITAMINS LIKE VITAMIN B VITAMIN D TO SEE THAT MIGHT BE AFFECTING THE PRESENCE THINKING OR MEMORY.

AND THEN WE GOING TO DO SCANNING OF THE BRAIN, SAN MRI OR A CT BRAIN.

AND WE ALSO TEST PEOPLE TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE NOT DEPRESSED, NOT ANXIOUS BECAUSE IF YOU'RE DEPRESSED, YOU WANT TO DO WELL ON THE HE WILL BE UP TO FOCUS AND PAY ATTENTION.

HOW WOULD YOU WANT TO ASK IS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THESE DIFFERENT TYPES OF TESTING THAT YOU LOOK FOR, BUT HOW WOULD YOU SAY THAT TESTS FOR MAY BE SIGNS OF NORMAL AGING AS OPPOSED TO MAYBE SIGNS OF SOMETHING MORE SERIOUS, LIKE DEMENTIA.

AND THAT'S WHERE THE CALLED GIVE TESTING HELPS.

BECAUSE NOW WE HAVE BEEN OBJECTIVE INSTRUMENT.

WE HAVE A SCORE AND THEN WE CAN DIG A LITTLE DEEPER IN TERMS OF THIS COURT WITH NORMAL AGING.

WHAT YOU SEE SOMEONE MIGHT BE STILL TO CALLED INFORMATION.

SO I REMEMBER MY GRANDMOTHER WOULD SOMETIMES GO OUT OF THEIR BEDROOM AND TO COME TO THE KITCHEN AND YOU LOOK UP IN THE CEILING AND BILL, WHY AM I HERE?

AND THEN THAT'S A LITTLE GIRL WILL KIND OF GET A LITTLE BIT AND THEN GRAB MY WOULD GO BACK INTO A ROOM.

AND PUPPET I CAME TO GET A SPLIT OF SUGAR BECAUSE SHE WENT BACK INTO A ROOM AND SHE ASSOCIATED THAT'S NORMAL AGING.

AND THAT'S WHERE YOU FORGET WHAT YOU REMEMBER SHORTLY THEREAFTER BECAUSE OF AN ASSOCIATION.

YOU MIGHT FORGET THE KEYS, BUT ULTIMATELY FIND THEM MIGHT GET TO PAY ONE BILL.

BUT WHAT PAYING BEGINNING TO PAY YOUR ENTIRE MORTGAGE FOR YEAR.

THAT IS OF SO WE'VE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MAYBE LIKE A CHAIN JUST GENERAL SIGNS OF GETTING OLDER.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF AROUND ABOUT THIS CONVERSATION SURROUNDING 3 AGE?

DO YOU THINK THAT THE PUBLIC'S DISCOURSE PRESIDENT BIDEN AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, U.S.

AGENTS?

I THINK IT'S A JUST I I THINK IT'S UNFORTUNATE.

AND EVEN BEFORE WE GOT TO THIS POINT IN TERMS OF THE POLITICS AND THE MOST RECENT DEBATE.

WE AS A COUNTRY HAVE BEEN GRAPPLING WITH AGES WE'VE SEEN AT THE AMERICAN BOARD OF INTERNAL MEDICINE IS EVEN CONTEMPLATING HOW TO APPROACH IT WHEN TESTING DOCTORS TO SEE HOW DOCTORS ARE APPROACHING I THINK AGE IS WAS WITH STARTS.

IT STARTS WITH THE FRONT, A LOGICAL AND IT GOES TO THE PARENTS.

AND SO IF YOU'RE 4 YEARS OLD, THEN SOMEONE I KNEW UP HIT WERE FRAIL.

PEOPLE STOP GETTING WORRIED.

SO ABOUT WHAT THEY'VE GOT DEMENTIA OR NOT.

I WANT TO ASK BECAUSE WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME, BUT I WANT TO TRY TO END THIS CONVERSATION ON MORE OF A POSITIVE NOTE.

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY ARE SOME POSITIVE ATTRIBUTES OF A CHAIN?

WHAT IS A DISCOURSE SURROUNDING THIS CONVERSATION?

BUT YOU'RE NOT HEARING.

YOU KNOW, WE, YOU KNOW, HEARING ABOUT THE WISDOM THAT THIS THE OLDER PERSON BRINGS TO THE TABLE.

WE HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO SERVED 2 TERMS UP TO 2 ADMINISTRATIONS AS VICE PRESIDENT.

THEN WE HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO ALMOST CONCLUDING ANOTHER TERM AS PRESIDENT.

I THINK THAT THAT PERSON BRINGS WISDOM TO THE TABLE.

I THINK YOU LOOK AT THIS SITE, MISTER TRUMP HAS LIVED A LONG LIFE.

DO YOU BRING SOME WITH THEM TO THE TABLE WAS STILL AS IT GOES TO A TWIST.

KNOWLEDGE THE ABILITY SIT BACK AND REFLECT HAD TO ACTUALLY MEASURE THINGS AGAINST THINGS FROM THE I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT AS A COUNTRY.

THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD DEBATES ALL THE THE THE THE THE THINGS OCCURRING RIGHT NOW, THE MAJOR THINGS EVENTS OCCURRING IN THE WORLD