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Articles about Dementia (0-50 of 741)
- Music And Art Therapy As An Effective Treatment For People With Dementia
By: Healthy_Woman | - Dementia is a word for a group of symptoms caused by disorders that affect the brain. People who dementia have significantly impaired intellectual functioning that interferes with normal activities and relationships. Memory loss is a common symptom of dementia, memory loss by itself does not mean that a person has dementia.
Research is pursuing a variety of promising findings for the treatment of dementia. Pharmacological interventions are available but have limited ability to treat ...
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- Hallucinations And Symptoms
By: credulous jolly | - Delusions and Hallucinations are often seen by people who are either stimulating drugs and by people who have a mental illness like Schizophrenia. However, delusions and hallucinations are also frequently seen in Dementia syndrome. One type of Dementia where hallucinations are frequently seen is Lewy Body dementia (L.B.D.).
People who goes through psychosis, having delusions, hearing voices, seeing different things and going through some kind of fantasy. What if those hallucinations were b ...
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- The Challenges To The Caregiver When Dealing With End Stage Dementia
By: Diane Carbo | -
End stage dementia is the last of the three stages of dementia. The challenges of this stage are dramatically different for the earlier stages. Many family caregivers are exhausted and often burned out from providing care at home when they get to this level of care.
The care giving skills needed are dramatically different than the previous stages. At this stage of the disease the former personality or the person that once was, is no longer there. The mental capacit ...
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- Middle Stages Of Dementia - What To Expect As A Caregiver
By: Diane Carbo | -
Caregivers, providing care for an individual in the middle stages of dementia have difficulty managing behaviors that are exhibited. Studies show that of the 5.1 million individuals diagnosed with dementia in this country, seventy percent remain in their homes and are receiving care from family and friends.
The middle stages of dementia will bring increasing challenges for you the caregiver and the individual that you are caring for. The early signs of dementia wil ...
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- Early Signs Of Dementia For Family Caregivers To Watch For
By: Diane Carbo | - Early signs of dementia, here are some tips for a successful approach to providing care.
The first of the three stages of dementia may present with memory problems that the individual is able to hide. Other signs of dementia may exhibit as depression, lack of interest or initiative in some individuals, or in other words the inability to carry out plans. Still others may begin to have some personality changes and begin to have difficulty with expressing emotions.
Bei ...
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- Causes Of Dementia Caregivers, Become Empowered To Provide Better Care
By: Diane Carbo | - What are the causes of dementia? Just what is dementia? How will caregivers knowledge of this disease help them provide better care? Knowledge is power. This dementia overview will help you, as a caregiver, to understand the various causes of dementia and what you can do to be prepared to provide quality care with confidence. Knowledge will take the mystery out of the condition and allow you to develop a plan for handling behaviors and changes as they present themselves.
There ...
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- A Dementia Overview For Caregivers - Understanding Dementia Will Help You Provide Better Care
By: Diane Carbo | - A dementia overview is important to those caregivers providing care to a loved one at home; as this condition can be very challenging. Some reading this may already be experiencing the day to day stressors.
There are so many causes of dementia and different types of dementia; it can all get very confusing.
As a caregiver, anticipating and planning to care for an individual with a diagnosis of dementia, knowing what types of dementia will influence how you provide ...
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- Compulsive Hoarding - A Well Kept Family Secret
By: Diane Carbo | - Compulsive hoarding may have been a well kept family secret, but now the family is concerned over the aging parent's safety in the home. This is an elder care crisis that is starting to rear its ugly head. Care giver stress over concerns about health code violations, fire safety or a fall that could lead to a death and being buried by trash.
City and county agencies have developed task forces to deal with the compulsive hoarder. The home of a hoarder looks like any other person's ...
Tags: compulsive hoarding, caregiver stress, elder care, Symptoms of dementia, types of mental illness
- Optimize Your Mental Health With A Good Brain Fitness Program
By: Jane Stewart | - Today we find people becoming physically more fit and healthy and mentally weak and unsteady. This is mainly due to the fact that more emphasis is given to physical fitness and gym routines and practically nothing for mental fitness.
Optimizing mental performance through brain fitness exercises is possible and can be seen with various result oriented programs.
Dementia and other horrible mental illnesses can be slowed if people would give equal importance to menta ...
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- Dementia Care Available In Kansas City
By: sumit.gurg | - The mind is our sole witness to our every living moment. Until the time we draw our last breath, we require its services. We require its attentiveness, although we take it for granted. The mind comprehends, compares, analyses, applies and reviews. When we feel good, the memories are recorded in our minds. When are morose, the memories are stashed away or distorted, to keep us looking forward to better days. The mind, singularly notes everything that happens with us, around us, irrespective of ou ...
Tags: Dementia, Dementia care, seniorcare
- Strengthen Your Brain With Powerful Brain Fitness Regimens
By: Jane Stewart | - Dementia is a set of symptoms resulting from damage or death of certain nerve cells in the brain. The person affected by this dreaded disease exhibits symptoms such as trouble with memory, trouble finding the right words and problem with their day to day activities.
Dementia patients exhibit symptoms of confusion and tend to get lost even in familiar places. They misplace objects and are usually depressed and irritable. Dementia can result in pronounced personality changes. An ot ...
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- What The Baby Boomer Generation Should Know About Dementia, Alzheimer's And Memory Loss
By: Diane Carbo | - As the baby boomer generation retires, many are concerned about dementia, Alzheimer's and memory loss. Modern technology and scientific advancements in health care are helping individuals live longer and healthier lives than any previous generation. The statistics of past generations indicate that 10 percent of individuals over the age of 65 years of age develop memory problems. By the age of 85 years of age, the percentage of memory problems increases to 50 percent.
Baby boomers ...
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- Helping Loved Ones By Understanding The Symptoms Of Dementia
By: Scott Windford | - For some, dementia conjures up images of difficult behavior and loss of control. Dementia is not a specific physiological or psychological disease. Rather, it is the progressive deterioration in cognitive functions due to
brain damage, leading to symptoms of dementia. In many instances, progressive deterioration in cognitive function is part of normal aging. According to a study published in The Lancet, the number of people with dementia is expected to double every two decades, reaching ...
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- Dementia: Understanding The Symptoms Of Dementia
By: Y. Avicenna | - Dementia is profound and progressive decline in memory accompanied by problems in one or more additional areas of cognition. Person with dementia usually starts by having frequent short-term memory problems.
Particularly affected areas may be memory, attention, language and problem solving, although particularly in the later stages of the condition, person with dementia may be disoriented in time, not knowing what day, week, month or year it is, not knowing where they are not knowin ...
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- The Role Of Acetylcholine In Dementia
By: Adam Fisher | - The first neurotransmitter to ever be identified by science, acetylcholine plays a critical role in the synaptic formation of memories. If your body produces less acetylcholine than normal, its probable that you will have memory problems. Its no surprise, then, that people suffering dementia often have problems with acetylcholine retention at acetylcholine receptors. Moreover, drugs with the side effect of causing memory loss usually also lower acetylcholine levels. Scientists no ...
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Social Web Results   Dementia care 'failing' the elderly Shared By: coreconnexions - Business guru Sir Gerry Robinson, whose father had dementia when he died, has set out to turn around three struggling dementia care homes for a new BBC...
 Can Gerry Robinson Fix Dementia Care Homes? « Fighting Monsters Shared By: monstertalk - This evening, BBC2 are running the first of a series of two programmes about the state of dementia residential (and presumably nursing) care in the...
 Columbia police seek help locating missing woman : News Shared By: wachfox - COLUMBIA -- The Columbia Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding an elderly woman with dementia missing since 1:30 p.m. Tuesday...
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 iPlayer - Can Gerry Robinson Fix Dementia Care Homes?: Episode 1 Shared By: FLIMEMA - In the next twenty years over a million Britons will have dementia, and sufferers are likely to end up in one of the country's privately run care...
 Alzheimer's and weight fluctuation – is there a connection? | health Shared By: ISRAEL21C - Is being overweight a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and other dementias? Do fluctuations in weight in middle age mean you're in danger of...
 A Review of Vitamin C. — Are you taking enough? « A Psychiatrist with Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) Shared By: Knittingdoc - Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble vitamin. Unlike most mammals and other animals, humans do not have the ability to make...
 Merevale House Special Residential Home for Older people living with Dementia (Midlands, Warwickshire) Shared By: debjam - Merevale House is a specialist residential home for young and older people living with dementia situated in Atherstone a small town in North Warwickshi...
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- How To Deal With Dementia?
By: David H Urmann | - Persons with dementia gradually lose their memory to the point of forgetting their familys faces. Learn how to handle people with dementia.
Dementia is the diagnosis to people who find it extremely difficult to think and/or communicate. The usual symptom of dementia is the loss of memory. They forget simple tasks like putting on clothes or even their names. It is not a disease but a condition.
There are many underlying causes of dementia, such as: Alzhei ...
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- What Are The Signs Of Dementia And What To Do When They Occur
By: Robert Kelly | - What are some common signs of dementia?
Dementia causes many difficulties for the person who has it and for the caregivers of persons with dementia. Many of the problems are caused by memory loss. Some common signs of dementia are listed below. Not everyone who has dementia will have all of these signs.
- Recent memory loss. All of us forget things for a while and then remember them later. People showing signs of dementia often forget things, but they never remember ...
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- Information On Lewy Bbody Dementia
By: Juliet | - Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a progressive brain illness. In Lewy body dementia, abnormal round structures called Lewy bodies develop in regions of your brain involved in thinking and movement. Lewy bodies result in the death of nerve cells. Lewy bodies also develop in people with Parkinson's disease but only in one part of the brain. Lewy body dementia is a relatively common dementia. It usually affects people over 65 and affects more men than women. Lewy bodies appear in deteriorating nerve cel ...
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- Frontotemporal Dementia Detailed Information
By: Juliet | - Frontotemporal dementia (frontotemporal lobar degeneration) is an umbrella phrase for a various group of infrequent disorders. Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) is an umbrella term for a group of rare disorders that mainly affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain the areas commonly associated with personality and behaviour. The disease frequently affects a person's ability to employ and understand spoken and written language. It can also affect personality, social behaviour, reasoning, ...
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- Avoiding Short Term Memory Loss
By: Greg Frost | - Different names for memory loss are amnesia and dementia. Our biggest fears as we grow older can come from losing our memory, and the inability handle family members who are experiencing such memory loss. Short term memory loss can be caused by stroke, circulation, Alzheimers as well as weak mental activity in our mind. However, take heart that memory loss is temporary and can be made better or prevented.
What is Short Term Memory?
Short-term memory refers to memories ...
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- Multi Infarct Dementia Causes Symptoms Information With Treatment
By: Juliet | - Multi-infarct dementia is often the result of a series of small strokes. Most common cause of vascular dementia is the blockage of small arteries supplying areas of the brain. In classical stroke, large blood vessels are blocked, resulting in the death of brain tissue supplied by that artery. The second most common cause of dementia in older adults is vascular dementia, which affects the blood vessels in the brain. A stroke occurs when blood cannot get to part of the brain. Strokes can be caused ...
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- Frontal Lobe Dementia Causes Symptoms Information With Treatment
By: Juliet | - Frontal lobe of the brain is the part that governs our mood and behaviour. Histologically, the frontal lobe dementias are proven to be characterized by Pick's cells (Pick's disease). At the present time, these diverse histological types are clinically indistinguishable. FTD can develop at almost any age in either gender. The series included 66% males and 34% females. Pick's disease occurs in the cerebral cortex, the outer layer of the brain that controls behavioral and cognitive functions. Sympt ...
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- Dementia Causes Symptoms Information With Treatment
By: Juliet | - Dementia is a slowly progressive brain disorder characterized by the loss of ability to think, reason and remember. Dementia is not a disease itself, but rather a group of symptoms that are caused by various diseases or conditions. In some cases, the dementia can be treated and cured because the cause is treatable. In some cases, although the person may appear to have dementia, a severe depression can be causing the symptoms. Examples of this include dementia caused by drugs or alcohol, or hormo ...
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- Alzheimer's Disease- Facts You Should Be Aware Of
By: Robert William Locke. | - It is usually in the 60's that symptoms of Alzheimer's disease can start appearing. Very often they are dismissed as just 'getting old'. In many cases unfortunately, these symptoms have much more serious consequences thanjust getting forgetful or just getting old.
The first alarming signal is when the person affected has marked difficulty in doing simple tasks which previously they performed with ease. These can range from opening a car door to getting a meal ready or using a sim ...
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- Prevention Of Senile Dementia - Breaking News Brings Hope
By: Robert William Locke. | - Many people ask if there is a way to prevent senile dementia and other mental diseases like Alzheimers. It now appears from a recent study that diet can and does play a role in their prevention. The study found that omega-3 foods, if consumed in sufficient quantities did indeed reduce elderly people's chances of developing these diseases by as much as 60%. Carrots and other beta-carotene foods were found to also reduce the possibility of developing dementia.
The American Academy ...
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- 1.7m Will Have Dementia By 2051
By: Chris Marshall | - Experts have predicted that 1.7m people will have dementia by 2051. There are currently 700,000 people in the UK with dementia, that is one in every 88 people. By 2021, the figure is expected to rise to 940,110, before reaching 1,735,087 in 2051.
The predicted figure means dementia will affect the lives of around one in three people either as a sufferer, or as a carer or relative, and it is a rise of 154% from the present day. There is no cure for dementia, and those with the con ...
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- Does The Brain Atrophy Like A Muscle?
By: Josh Stone | - We aren't so much talking about the physical structure of the brain itself - or are we? Medical and psychological research recently has pointed to the emerging idea that the more you exercise your brain, the better it will work in your old age and the more resistant you will be to Alzheimer's, dementia, and general cognitive impairments. It is very difficult to say exactly how this works - what, for instance, are we to make of the recent clinical test where a group who was taught how to juggle s ...
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- Scientists Hunt Earliest Alzheimer's - Dementia Symptoms Race Is On Against Feared Epidemic.
By: Amelia Walton | - Seniors with Alzheimer's have their choice of care centers in the suburbs. This month a new one is opening in Wheaton, and at least five others are planned for the region, including centers in Hoffman Estates, Glen Ellyn and Geneva.Traditionally, nursing homes have been the only option for people with Alzheimer's, a disease that erases memory and slowly destroys the brain. But these new centers are at assisted-living sites, which combine housing and health care....
Alzheimer's is ...
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- Alzheimer's - Dementia Foundation Of America
By: Amelia Walton | - The Alzheimer’s Association, Greater Illinois Chapter, continues to meet increased needs of families facing Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. More than 4 million people are already diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and millions of families are looking for support, information on the disease, treatment options, legal and financial information, behavioral issues, and respite options
Alzheimer's is a devastating disorder of the brain's nerve cells th ...
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- Are You Worried About Your Memory?
By: Max Pinner | - Are You Worried About Your Memory?
By Max Pinner
Do you fear memory loss? Or dementia? Are you forgetful?
We're all forgetful to some degree. It's not just an age thing.
There are positive, do-able steps we can all take to successfully improve our memory -- regardless of our age. And a spinoff from the memory-improvement steps we can take is to even help lessen our risk of dementia.
Types Of Memory
There are ...
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- Memory Vitamins - Are There Vitamins For Memory Loss?
By: David Lee Buster | - Are there really memory vitamins for memory loss treatment and prevention?
It is generally recognized that our brain cells die off every day. Over the years and decades, the result can be memory loss, dementia or Alzheimers disease. Yes, memory vitamins for memory loss can have a positive role in the slowing and/or prevention of memory function decline.
The brain consists of hundreds of billions of brain cells that are called neurons. These neurons stretch toward ea ...
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- Dementia Sundowning - A Pattern Of Deterioration
By: Andi Michaels | - People with various forms of dementia including Alzheimer's disease are often found to be at their emotional best at earlier points in the day. Caretakers often report that as the day progresses the patient's memory and emotional well-being deteriorate, this is often referred to as "sundowning".
Some of the symptoms of sundowning are an increase in the agitation levels of the patient as well as the loss of abilities to comprehend, perform certain tasks and other functions that the ...
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- Living With And Caring For A Dementia Sufferer
By: Andi Michaels | - Living in the same home as a loved one or family member suffering from dementia can be very difficult. Not only do we have to constantly be around someone who may be completely different from the person we previously knew, we have to learn coping mechanisms to deal with the limitations and frustrations dementia brings with it. While mild cases of dementia may involve some simple incidents of forgetfulness or needing help to dress, other moderate to severe levels may force us to deal with persona ...
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- Drug Treatment For Dementia Sufferers
By: Andi Michaels | - Sadly, the symptoms of dementia can strike at any age, and the syndrome isn't one strictly associated with the elderly. Dementia is not really an illness of its own - it's a group of symptoms related to the decline of cognitive functions; and the underlying causes of the impairments vary. Strokes, infection and tumour's can all damage the brain and its exceptional functioning, reducing favorite or simple tasks to ones that, with dementia, become a daily struggle.
The first thing t ...
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- Dementia And Alzheimer's Disease And A Healthy Diet
By: Andi Michaels | - The eating habits of people who suffer from dementia and Alzheimer's disease can have a direct effect on their health and the progression of the disease. It is very important that patients that suffer from dementia and Alzheimer's maintain both a good nutritional intake as well as adequate fluids as being fully hydrated helps many patients avoid or at least lessen some of the symptoms such as agitation, confusion and restlessness that can strike during the early evening hours.
A c ...
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- Behavioural Changes In Dementia Sufferers
By: Andi Michaels | - Dementia can be a difficult syndrome to pin down into exact symptoms. A loved one or family member might have some increasingly puzzling behaviour, and you're left wondering if this is all you can expect to have to deal with, or what other symptoms of the disorder might crop up. Is there a set group of behaviours that leads to a dementia diagnosis, and what exactly are they?
What Is Dementia?
Dementia is a marked, prolonged decline in cognitive abilities a person on ...
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- Dementia Or Alzheimer's - Which Is Correct?
By: Andi Michaels | - We've been hearing about Alzheimer's disease for years, thanks to great awareness campaigns, but now the new word out there is dementia, and the two terms often seem to be seen hand in hand. Many people don't like the sound of the word dementia and those that have loved ones or family members who have received the dementia diagnosis prefer to pass it off as Alzheimer's. Is there really any difference between Alzheimer's and dementia, and if so, what is it?
Society's perception ...
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- Is Dementia Always Related To Your Age?
By: Andi Michaels | - The first conclusion most people come to when they hear about dementia and Alzheimer's is that it is basically something they won't need to worry about until they are much older. However, dementia and Alzheimer's are not just conditions of the elderly. There are cases of early onset Alzheimer's that have developed in people between the ages of thirty to forty; however the majority of cases of early onset Alzheimer's are diagnosed when the patient is in their fifties.
Any diagnose ...
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- The Conditions Of Alzheimer's Dementia Explained
By: Clive Jenkins | - Alzheimers disease is fundamentally a form of mental disorder known as dementia. The disease is by far the most ever-present dementing illness of today with the more common form of Alzheimers disease known as late-onset Alzheimer's.
So What's The definition Of Alzheimers?
Alzheimers disease is considered to be primarily a condition of the elderly affecting mainly those over the age of sixty five. It is also common knowledge that this disease is the Number 4 Killer ...
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- Dealing With Demntia
By: Alice Endy | - 1994 my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimers Disease.
At that time she had been demonstrating memory deficits for at least two years. My career had always been in the field of Geriatrics, the care of the elderly. I had worked with countless families in caring for their elder family members at home, in Assisted Living Facilties and in Nursing Homes.
My least favorite patient type was the Dementia
patient. I know now that why I felt that way was
because I had ...
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- Coping With Dementia
By: Minh Nguyen, D. D. S. | - If you or someone you know has a family member with dementia, then you know what a difficult, debilitating disorder it is. Dementia is a disorder of the nervous system that affects the ability to reason, speak, remember, and move. In some cases, this condition grows worse over time and cannot be cured. Other types can be treated and reversed.
What are the causes of dementia?
The most common causes of dementia are diseases such as the following:
(1 ...
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- The Difficulty In Alzheimers Diagnosis
By: Clive Jenkins | - Alzheimers disease still remains on the whole a mysterious condition, with very little known about its causes or the precise nature of its effects. Because the causes are unknown, identifying likely candidates for developing the disease is an impossible feat. Likewise there is no cure for those who do end up with the disease, and it shares symptoms with many other conditions, making Alzheimers diagnosis particularly difficult.
It is thought that there are a number of factors whic ...
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- The Symptoms Of Dementia
By: Heather Colman | - Dementia is the progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Particularly affected areas may be memory, attention, language and problem solving, although particularly in the later stages of the condition, affected persons may be disoriented in time, not knowing what day, week, month or year it is, not knowing where they are not knowing who they are. Symptoms of dementia can be classified as either reversible or i ...
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