The Irreversible Nature of Dementia and Its Profound Impact In Part 1, we delved into the daunting statistics that illustrate the dramatic rise in dementia cases, with Alzheimer’s Disease taking the lead, followed by Lewy Body Dementia, Frontotemporal Lobe...
What Is Dementia? “Dementia is a general term for loss of memory, language, problem-solving and other thinking abilities that are severe enough to interfere with daily life. Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of dementia.” – Alzheimer’s...
Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are often spoken about interchangeably, but they are not the same condition. Dementia is the term applied to a group of symptoms that negatively impact memory, but Alzheimer’s, the most common type of dementia, is a progressive disease...
Dementia is not a normal part of the aging process. Problems caused by dementia can directly, and sometimes severely, interfere with a person’s ability to perform everyday activities. In comparison, typical age-related changes in thinking are subtle and generally...
What is Alzheimer’s disease? Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease that causes increasing impairment of the functioning of the brain over time. We still have a lot to learn about the condition but treatment is ongoing. It can be devastating to the patient...
