1. { Dementia Wendy Valenzuela

2.  A mental deficiency in which the brain has long term complications with various tasks when brain cells begin to die off. Brief definition of dementia

3.  A large majority of elderly suffer from dementia but it is not necessarily caused by aging.  Brain disease or injury  Death of brain cells  Collapse of the cerebral cortex  Responsible for thoughts, memory, actions and personality Causes

4.  Memory loss is typically the first symptom to appear:  Misplacing items  Forgetting important dates  Eventually names and faces, even those of family members.  Impaired planning:  Performing familiar tasks or plan activities Common symptoms

5.  Trouble with language and comprehension:  Unable to understand instructions and complex sentences  Poor judgment:  Unable to recognize the consequence to their actions  Hard to approximate appropriate behavior  Behavior can become rude, excessively friendly or violent and unaware of bad hygiene. Continued symptoms

6.  Impaired orientation:  Failure to recognize location and time of day.  Decreased attention span and increased restlessness:  Lose focus  Wander off often  Behavior changes:  Depressed, anxious.  Delusions, hallucinations could occur.  Sleep disturbances Continued

7.  Interferes with normal day to day activities  Trouble with memory, reasoning, planning and behavior  Who suffers from it?  Usually people over 60 years of age  Did you know that about 60% of nursing home patients have dementia? Complications

8.  Alzheimer's disease  Vascular dementia  Parkinson's disease  Dementia with Lewy bodies  Huntington's disease  Korsakoff’s syndrome  AIDS related dementia  Fronto Temporal Lobar Degeneration  Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Different forms of dementia

9.  Alzheimer's   Alzheimer's is a type of dementia that causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior, it is more common in the elderly but can happen at any time in age.  Vascular Dementia   Vascular dementia is a decline in thinking skills caused by conditions that block or reduce blood flow to the brain, depriving brain cells of vital oxygen and nutrients.  Dementia with Lewy Bodies   Dementia with Lewy bodies also known as (DLB) is a type of progressive dementia that leads to a decline in thinking, reasoning and independent function because of abnormal microscopic deposits that damage brain cells over time. Three most common forms of Dementia

10. Alzheimer's disease   Alzheimer's is a type of dementia that causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior, it is more common in the elderly but can happen at any time in age. Symptoms will usually start slowly and get worse over time, becoming severe enough to interfere with daily tasks.   Known to be the most common in dementia, a general term for memory loss. Alzheimer's disease accounts for 50 to 80 percent of dementia cases.   It is not a normal part when aging, it is a common risk in the elderly and the majority of people with this are usually 65 or older. But, it is not just a disease of old age, up to 5 percent of people with disease have early signs of Alzheimer’s which may appear during the age of 40 or 50 Form of Dementia

11.  It is the 6 th leading to death in the United States.   1 in 3 seniors dies with Alzheimer's or another dementia.   More than five million Americans are living with the disease. More than 200,000 people in the United States have early on-set with Alzheimer's Dementia Important facts of Alzheimers

12.   Psychology professor Richard Taylor. Wrote about his life with Alzheimer’s and the struggles it brought into his life. The book is called “Alzheimer's from the Inside Out.“   Richard Taylor was a former psychology professor who was diagnosed with dementia at the age of 58. He wrote a book about what he went through dealing with Alzheimer’s and is now very passionate about his job caring for people who deal with this disease. He confessed about how much his relationship and life style has changed.   Taylor is only worsening with his disease, he has forgotten how to do every day things, like reply emails which his wife Linda does for him now. Interview with SPIEGEL, an Alzheimer’s victim lives in Houston Texas diagnosed in 2001

13. Vascular Dementia   Vascular dementia is a decline in thinking skills caused by conditions that block or reduce blood flow to the brain, depriving brain cells of vital oxygen and nutrients.   Vascular Dementia can happen when there is problems in the blood supply to the brain as said above. It is in the top most common forms of dementia in younger people. Around 20 percent of younger people with dementia have vascular dementia due to it not being as bad as Alzheimer's. Form of Dementia

14.   Men are more susceptible to vascular dementia, they tend to have a higher blood pressure for example from conditions like high blood cholesterol, diabetes and irregular heart rhythms and more heart problems than women. Important facts of Vascular Dementia

15. Dementia with Lewy Bodies   Dementia with Lewy bodies also known as (DLB) is a type of progressive dementia that leads to a decline in thinking, reasoning and independent function because of abnormal microscopic deposits that damage brain cells over time. Form of Dementia

16.  It is one of the most common forms as dementia which comes before Alzheimer's  REM sleep and hallucinations and much more are very common symptoms for this disease   Although this is currently treatable because there are no medications that are approved specifically, all the medications prescribed for (DLB) are approved for a course of treatment for the symptoms that relate to Alzheimer’s or other disease with dementia. Important facts on (DLB)

17.   Jadu Content Management. "Types of dementia." Alzheimers Society. Version 2115499. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Jan. 2014.. Jadu Content Management. "Types of dementia." Alzheimers Society. Version 2115499. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Jan. 2014. <http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents.php?ca tegoryID=200362>.   National Institutes of Health. "NINDS Dementia Information Page." Dementia Information Page: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). Office of Communications and Public Liaison, 2 May 2013. Web. 12 Jan. 2014. <http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/deme National Institutes of Health. "NINDS Dementia Information Page." Dementia Information Page: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). Office of Communications and Public Liaison, 2 May 2013. Web. 12 Jan. 2014. <http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/deme   Dorland's Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers. "Dementia playV2('en/US/dk/dkdfdssldtshsosldtgk');playV2('en/UK/dk/d kdfdssldtshsosldtgk')."TheFreeDictionary.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Jan. 2014. Dorland's Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers. "Dementia playV2('en/US/dk/dkdfdssldtshsosldtgk');playV2('en/UK/dk/d kdfdssldtshsosldtgk')."TheFreeDictionary.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Jan. 2014. <http://medical- dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/dementia>   "Alzheimer's Disease Fact Sheet."National Institute on Aging. National Institute of Health, n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2014.. "Alzheimer's Disease Fact Sheet."National Institute on Aging. National Institute of Health, n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2014. <http://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/publication/alzheimers- disease-fact-sheet>.References

18.  This was a project for psychology which was based on the suffering that people have when it comes to Dementia.  I explained all the different types, symptoms and how it can occur to anyone.  It took a lot of research and time which made me know I put in so much effort into this assignment. What is this?