White added: “Clearly, Jill knows him better than any of us, but I can’t see how anybody close to him could think that he will have the mental capacity in four years.”
“Perhaps she sees something we don’t. Maybe she sees how sharp he is behind doors. But if you’re on a plane and a stewardess says over the PA system: ‘Can everyone say happy birthday to the pilot who is 81 today’ there would be a lot of worried passengers.”
“Cognitive decline happens to everyone and although strategic thinking can improve with experience, memory issues will persist. They won’t get better, that’s for sure. It’s going to get worse.”
