What is Dementia?

Dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life. Memory loss is an example of this.  Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia. It accounts for 60 to 80 percent of cases. Vascular dementia, which occurs after a stroke, is the second most common. There are many other conditions that can cause symptoms of dementia, including some that are reversible, such as Thyroid or Vitamin deficiencies.


Symptoms of dementia:

• memory loss
• communication and Language
• ability to focus and pay attention
• reasoning and judgement
• visual perception

Types of dementia:

• Alzheimer's disease
• Vascular dementia
• Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)
• Mixed Dementia
• Parkinson's disease
• Frontotemporal dementia
• Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease
• Normal pressure hydrocephalus
• Huntington's disease
• Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome 

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