What is damentia?

Question

WHAT IS DAMENTIA?

Answer 1

Dementia, a progressive brain dysfunction, leads to a gradually increasing restriction of daily activities. The most well-known type of dementia is Alzheimer's disease. Dementia not only affects patients, but also those surrounding them, as most patients require care in the long-term.

Some UK facts.

Incidence of dementia:
Under age 65 effects 1 in 1000
Age 65 to 80 effects 1 in 100
Age 80 years and over effects 1 in 5

Thought to be over 700,000 in the UK with some form of dementia 18,500 under the age of 65. 681,500 people over 65 are effected.

Signs and Symptoms of dementia:
Memory loss leads to feelings of being afraid, anxious
Disorientation – panicked, lost
Speech problems (dysphasia) – trapped, frustrated
Task problems (dyspraxia) – useless, angry
Recognition problems (dysnosia) – alone, insecure
Depression – hopeless, uninterested
Aggression - furious, uncooperative
Hallucinations – confused, distressed
Walking about – agitated, restless

Answer 2

What is Dementia?

Dementia is the loss of mental abilities and most commonly occurs late in life. Of all persons over age 65, 5-8% are demented. This percentage increases considerably with age. Twenty-five to 50% of people over 85 are affected.

Answer 3

Hey there,
A very good, eye-opening site about this problem is: http://memoryloss.toptips.org
Memory loss may be due to many conditions such as small strokes in the brain, diabetes, high blood pressure, nutritional deficiencies, reactions to medications and alcoholism. The symtoms of more severe forms of Dementia / Alzheimer are mainly: poor judgement, poor decision making, masplacing things, difficulty having a conversation, losing track of dates, etc. If you notice any of these signs visit your doctor.
Regards

Answer 4

Dementia is usually associated with older people. They forget things. It is also called being senile. Alzheimer's is a form of dementia. There are some new drugs out there to slow the progress, but there is no cure. It is a horrible disease to witness. People will forget their kids and family. As the disease progresses they can eventually forget how to eat. Alzheimer's is fatal disease.

Answer 5

Dementia - a progressive brain dysfunction, leads to a gradually increasing restriction of daily activities. The most well-known type of dementia is Alzheimer's disease.

Answer 6

dementia -- usually it's when the person is confused... loss of orientation to time, date and place. probably a grade lower than hallucination. it's usually either a symptom of an underlying disease, could be caused by medications (or forgetting to take their medications), it sometimes correlate with age -- there are a lot of reasons that would cause it to tell you the truth... but definitely -- it would correlate with somebody who needs medical attention.

Answer 7

Dont you men dementia? if so its a neurological condition mainly suffered by the elderly but can also occur in younger people through head trauma or some diseases

Answer 8

Dementia is a form of degenerative brain disease. It may cause loss of memeory, confusion and worse.
Hence the old fashioned term demented!

Answer 9

Dementia or Altzeimers is when the Mum you have loved all of your life asks who you are and you can see the fear in her eyes. Hope you never experience it first hand.

Answer 10

Dementia is the old term for Alzhiemer's