Dementia
Dementia is not a disorder of consciousness, and consciousness is not usually affected. Screening the general population for the disorder is not recommended. There is no known cure for dementia. Cognitive and behavioral interventions may be appropriate. Educating and providing emotional support to the caregiver is important.
About Dementia in brief
Dementia occurs as a set of related symptoms when the brain is damaged by disease. The symptoms involve progressive impairments to memory, thinking, and behavior. Other common symptoms include emotional problems, difficulties with language, and decreased motivation. Dementia is not a disorder of consciousness, and consciousness is not usually affected. Screening the general population for the disorder is not recommended. There is no known cure for dementia. There are many measures that can improve the quality of life of people with dementia and their caregivers. Cognitive and behavioral interventions may be appropriate. Educating and providing emotional support to the caregiver is important. Exercise programs may be beneficial with respect to activities of daily living and potentially improve outcomes. Treatment of behavioral problems with antipsychotics is common but not usually recommended, due to the limited benefit and the side effects, including an increased risk of death. It was estimated in 2020 that dementia affected about 50 million people worldwide. This is an increase on the 2015 estimate of 46 million. About 10% of people develop the disorder at some point in their lives, commonly as a result of aging. In 2015 dementia resulted in about 1. 9 million deaths, up from 0. 8 million in 1990. High blood pressure, and diabetes are common comorbid conditions, and there are three or more associated co-occurring conditions. The earliest stage of dementia is called mild cognitive impairment. In those diagnosed with MCI, those with dementia are beyond 70 years of age.
In the first stages of dementia, the first signs of dementia may be subtle and may be physical or physical. The most commonly affected areas include memory, visual-spatial perception and orientation, language, attention and problem solving. Often the early signs become apparent when looking back in time in the early stages of the disease. In people with Alzheimer’s disease, the earliest signs are verbal and physical, which can be verbal, verbal aggression, and physical physical problems. People with dementia may experience a sudden change to crying or anger known as a catastrophic reaction. The types of dementia also vary across the disease subtypes, the types of which also vary in severity, and the rate of progression vary across disease subtype. The early signs and symptoms of dementia are both the behavioral and the psychological and are termed behavioral and psychological symptoms of BPSD. The type of dementia that is most likely to affect a person with dementia is MCI. It is a major neurocognitive disorder, with varying degrees of severity and many causative subtypes. It can be diagnosed by history and cognitive testing with medical imaging, and blood tests to rule out other possible causes, and to determine the particular subtype of dementia. More than one type of. dementia may exist in the same person. About 3% of. people between the ages of 65–74 have dementia, 19% between 75 and 84, and nearly half of those over 85 years of. age. The cost of dementia in 2015 was put at US$818 billion.
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This page is based on the article Dementia published in Wikipedia (as of Dec. 06, 2020) and was automatically summarized using artificial intelligence.
