2006-07-20 17:52:47 · 13 answers · asked by Sunkist 4 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Dementia is the condition where a person is confused and forgetful and the cause is biological. Sometimes a person who is depressed will get that way too, but that is not dementia.
Some causes of dementia are not enough blood flow to the brain,
brain damage from an injury or disease, tangles and plaques in the nerve cells, and a number of diseases.
Alzheimer's disease is caused by something that produces tangles and plaques in the nerve cells. So it is one type of dementia.
I'm sorry but none of the previous answerers have a clue, Including the person, "ever wolf" who says he's a "doctor".
2006-07-20 18:20:23 · answer #1 · answered by Smartassawhip 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
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2016-12-24 21:49:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-24 23:12:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alzheimer's disease is a form of dementia. There are other forms like Parkinson's or vascular dementia from a stroke. You can have more than one type at once.
For more information on Alzheimer's, go to the Alzheimer's Association website.
2006-07-21 07:47:48 · answer #4 · answered by Gevera Bert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alzheimer is a Type of dementia. My mom died of Alzheimer disease. It's one of the worse diseases I have ever seen in my life.
Alzheimer disease starts with just little details, like to forget to turn off the stove after cooking, then is getting worse, the person starts forgeting words, places, names, dates. They forget if they took a shower or if they ate. They confuse the reality.
At the begining a person with Alzheimer has an "in and out" with the reality. They repeat questions and actions like if they are doing it for the first time. They know there is something wrong, they get frustrated and get really depressed. They constantly cry or get mad.
Then, they go back in time and they start asking for realtives who are dead, like for example:
My mother always used to ask: where are Mom and Dad? My grand parents were dead many years before. She got confused and she though I was her cousin.
Alzheimer patients change their mood all the time, they are happy for 5 minutes and then they get aggresive, then they cry like little kids, they can't control their emotions.
alzheimer disease has 3 stages:
1st stage:
Patients forget, places names, dates, repeat actions, repeat questions, confuse time, they forget if they ate etc.
2nd stage:
Patients are more desoriented in palce and time, they get lost coming home from work or going to any palce. they forgot names of realtives and close friends, they go back in time, they turn aggresive, they start getting difficulties to talk, to go to the bathroom, they repeat actions and questions constantely. Etc.
3rd stage: Patients lose the capacity to talk to walk and they cannot get up from the bed, they lose the reason completly, they cannot recognize any realtives or friend. They forgot how to eat. Finally they die.
What the Alzheimer do in the person is: Alzheirmer kills the brain cells, the person lose the memory completly.
No one has found a cure for the Alzheimer yet.
My Mom died on September 19, 2005 at the age of 64 of Alzheimer disease. I still remember her like she was before this terrible disease killed her. My mom was a very smart, beautiful woman, very talented and sensitive artist. This is the way I remember her.
2006-07-20 18:32:33 · answer #5 · answered by divacobian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've experienced both with family members and even within myself in mild forms of dementia.
I'm a Doctor, but not one of medicine, and I haven't looked into reports that state definitive differences, but I have a suggestion, born of 62 years in personal experience.
In it's most mild form anyone might endure a level of dementia that cause one to forget where they put their car keys. It usually causes some level of panic. In someone with Alzheimers, especially in advanced stages, they not only might forget where they put the keys, or even that they had a car, or why they were even wondering where they are, but in an instant, they wouldn't care, and another issue would present itself.
Rev. Steven
2006-07-20 18:01:55 · answer #6 · answered by DIY Doc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alzheimers is when you forget things from your past. My aunties biological father had alzeimers.
Dementia is like going crazy. My grandmother had a case of dementia. It was scarry, my grandmother kept on seeing things that weren't happening like holes in the ground. She would scream thinking I was going to fall into the holes. The doctor said some part of the brain was being affected, he gave her some pills and she became less scary.
2006-07-20 18:22:54 · answer #7 · answered by salvador m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dementia is a part of alzheimers dz...but it can be caused by multiple diseases...senile dementia, alzheimers, you can get dementia from multiple things...Alzheimers has features of dementia...but also has other symptoms.
2006-07-20 17:57:37 · answer #8 · answered by Confucius 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well my papa when he died he had both, i believe alzheimer was short or long time memory loss, and dementia is when you revert to bein a small child or baby and loose all abilities to function properly, they have some great websites out there than can help, i dont recommend what wikipedia says most of the time it is off, look at their fine print
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2014-09-18 12:59:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋