Dementia is an umbrella term for a decline in mental ability, manifested by symptoms like memory loss and difficulties with thinking. It is a terrible condition which affects both the lives of the victims and their family members.
WHAT IS DEMENTIA?
As mentioned above, dementia itself is not a disease, rather a general term used to describe and categorize certain mental disorders. Among them are:
Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Parkinson’s Disease
Vascular Dementia
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Frontotemporal Dementia
Huntington’s Disease
Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome
Alzheimer’s
There are more than 100 different types of dementia, all of which are progressive and damage the brain more and more as time passes by. Alzheimer`s is the most prevalent type of dementia, accounting for over 50 percent of all dementia cases. While only an estimate, about 5 million Americans suffer from some form of dementia.
DEMENTIA AFFECTS DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT WAYS
Dementia affects people differently; depending on their emotional and physical stability, personality, and the support they are given. While dementia is incurable at this point, early diagnosis can go a long way in helping to address the problem on time.
12 EARLY WARNING SIGNS OF DEMENTIA
1. SHORT TERM MEMORY PROBLEMS
Short term memory problems are one of the most common early signs of dementia. Initially, these changes are very subtle, causing the individual to remember events of many years ago, while failing to recall more recent events. They may also be unable to remember where they put something or why they went somewhere.
2. DIFFICULTY WITH CHOOSING A SUITABLE WORD :
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