2007-04-15 16:27:37 · 7 answers · asked by mrs. I don't remember 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
what???????I cant remember!!!!!!!
its the same thing....with different names for that terrible condition(decease)....
n 1901, Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German psychiatrist, interviewed a patient named Mrs. Auguste D., age 51. She was brought in by her husband, Karl Deter, who could not care for her declining mental health any longer. Dr. Alzheimer showed her several objects and later asked her what she had been shown. She could not recall. He would initially record her behavior as "amnesic writing disorder," but Mrs. Auguste D would be the first patient to be identified with Alzheimer's disease.
2007-04-15 16:30:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
if you type in "alzheimer and dementia?" there are some good websights that will explain it to you . dementia is where you forget things. it affects your long and/or short term memory. alzheimers is a desease in the brain, that part of the brain that is affected will shrink causing a person to loose different skills (thinking, speaking, remembering, adl skills) there are many different way that alzheimers affect people. dementia is the same way. some people that have dementia seem like there is nothing wrong but they might not remember how many kids they have or what they ate for lunch it just depends on how bad either one of them are. usually when a person has alzheimers, they also develope dementia but a person with dementia doesnt allway get alzheimers.
2007-04-15 16:40:16 · answer #2 · answered by onkatt69 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia. It is a progressive, degenerative brain disorder. Brain cells shrink or disappear, gradually destroying a person's memory, ability to learn and make judgments. An estimated 4.5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease. By 2050 the number of those affected is projected to range from 11.3 million to 16 million.
As Alzheimer's advances, an individual's capacity to reason and carry out normal daily activities diminishes. As the disease affects disparate areas of the brain, different functions and abilities are lost. Each individual is uniquely affected and at widely varying rates of acceleration. As a result, there is no single approach to caregiving.
2007-04-17 10:51:52 · answer #3 · answered by Gilbert Guide 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Alzheimer's is a disease that can strike adults. It is characterized by dementia, or loss of mental fuction, particularly memory. Dementia may be caused by a numbe of things, AD is thought to be at least partly caused by a deficiency of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Neither is nice, but dementia and AD are treatable with early intervention.
2007-04-15 16:32:56 · answer #4 · answered by teetzijo 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lori is correct, Dementia is a general type of brain disorder that can be caused by a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease or Vascular dementia.
2007-04-15 16:36:32 · answer #5 · answered by Doctor J 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Alzheimer's IS a form of dementia. Dementia is the broad term and Alzheimers is a particular form of organic dementia---a subset, as it were.
2007-04-15 16:30:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
they are two different words for the same thing
2007-04-15 16:30:09 · answer #7 · answered by caffsans 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋