Adams ends his time in the Netherlands in a state of progressive illness.

Alzheimer's disease gets worse over time, and dealing with a progressive illness is difficult.

Still, it's the voices of the retirees that power the book: "Retirement is like a progressive illness and a spiritual experience.

Most Americans die of chronic and progressive illnesses: heart disease, stroke and cancer.

In his later years, he suffered from a progressive mental illness.

This means people who have a progressive illness and are not expected to live more than another six months.

His two daughters said he had been suffering from a progressive neurological illness.

He continues to live and work in Venice although a progressive illness has slow down his activities.

Charles suffered the first attack of his lifelong progressive mental illness in 1392, and was forced to temporarily withdraw from government.

Three days of progressive illness had evidently been quite sufficient to reduce her parent to the condition indicated by the third dream.