1. What is dementia?? By C Spain.

2. WHAT IS DEMENTIA?
Dementia is a decline in a person’s usual state of functioning.
This could be physical, mental, social or as is normal a combination of all three.
It is most often seen in persons over the age of 65 but can affect anyone of any age.

3. There are several forms of Dementia, the most common one being termed, Alzheimer’s disease so we shall concentrate on that one.

4. Other forms of Dementia include ---
Vascular dementia
Lewy bodies’ dementia
Huntington’s disease
Korsakoffs desease
Jakob-creutzfeldt desease
Aids related dementia
Multiinfact dementia
And others.

5. DEMENTIA
It is worth bearing in mind that you cannot diagnose correctly between most types of dementia until after death and the brain is looked at in a post mortem.
Because of the high incidents of Alzheimer's most doctors refer to it as a diagnoses of “A dementia of the Alzheimer's type.”

6. Dementia develops when the parts of the brain that deal with leaning, memory, decision-making and language are affected by one or more of a variety of infections and/or diseases

7. Most forms of dementia including Alzheimer’s disease are not curable unfortunately.
Not everyone will get dementia but the incidence of it does increase with age

8. WHO GETS DEMENTIA?

9. Interesting, right?
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