Dementia
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Dementia patients cared for by mentally ill nurseA Crown Court judge called today for an investigation into how a senior nurse was allowed to care for dementia patients despite suffering with mental illness herself. Penelope Webber was seen kneeling on top of an 87-year-old man and... In this article: Dementia, Paranoia, and South Wales |
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New Kerala | 2 days ago
Rare brain disorder which causes dementia is genetic
...that causes early dementia is highly hereditary. The brain disorder called frontotemporal dementia destroys parts of the brain, leading to dementia, including problems with language or changes in behaviour and personality. The disease...
In this article: Frontotemporal dementia, Neurology, American Academy of Neurology, University College London, Science Daily, London, and Britain
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Medical News Today | 2 days ago
Packages Of Care For Dementia In Low- And Middle-income Countries
...middle-income countries (LMICs), Martin Prince and colleagues discuss the treatment of dementia. Globally, 24.3 million people are affected by dementia and 4.6 million new cases occur annually. The prevalence of dementia is expected to...
In this article: Mental disorder, Alzheimer's, and Kansas
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Wired Top Stories | 3 days ago
Storyboard: Tim and Eric's Brilliant Dementia
Wired staffers love Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Believe it or not, the demented antics of Tim Heidecker and Eric Warheim might be the future of comedy. But what's so funny about the show's gross, awkward sketches (like the one...
In this article: Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, E mail, Wired.com, and Tim Heidecker
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Tests Can Predict Dementia Precursor
...to a report published in Neurology. People who have MCI are at an increased risk of going on to develop dementia. Alzheimer's Society comment 'Dementia develops in the brain many years before people start to notice there is...
In this article: MCI and Alzheimer's
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Two New Studies Show Dementia Care Fails People With Sight Loss
...for both conditions are rare. This means that someone with sight loss may be wrongly diagnosed with dementia or a diagnosis of dementia may be missed in someone with sight loss. "Once again, people who have joint sight loss and dementia...
In this article: Hallucination, Medical advice, King's College, London, Alzheimer's, Institute of Psychiatry, and UK
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Is Disorder That Causes Dementia Hereditary?
For the study, blood was drawn from 225 people who were diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. The people were asked about family history of dementia and given a score of one through four. A score of one represents a person who had at...
In this article: Frontotemporal dementia, Neurology, Medical advice, The American Academy, American Academy of Neurology, Alzheimer's Research Trust, Alzheimer's, and Pick's disease
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Memory test may help spot pre-dementia
London, Nov 3 : Memory and language tests can diagnose 'hidden' early dementia, according to British experts. While most dementias are missed for years as the symptoms are not clear until considerable brain tissue is lost, Oxford...
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BBC News | 5 days ago
Memory test 'spots pre-dementia'
Memory and language tests can reliably reveal "hidden" early dementia, say UK experts. Most dementias are missed for years as the symptoms can be elusive until considerable brain tissue is lost. But doctors from Oxford found they were...
In this article: Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's Research Trust, Oxford, and UK
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MedicineNet | 5 days ago
Flu Deaths Higher Among Seniors With Dementia
FRIDAY, Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Seniors with dementia are diagnosed with flu less often, have shorter hospital stays and are 50% more likely to die than those without dementia, says a U.S. study that looked at flu and pneumonia in...
In this article: Tufts University, Tufts University School of Medicine, and U.S.
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Older Patients With Dementia At Increased Risk For Flu Mortality
Also Included In: Alzheimer's / Dementia; Respiratory / Asthma; Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 28 Oct 2009 - 2:00 PDT An epidemiological study on pneumonia and influenza (P&I) in adults age 65 and over reports...
In this article: Tufts University School of Medicine, Cholesterol, Asthma, Alzheimer's, High cholesterol, and Heart disease
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Dementia (from Latin de- "apart, away" + mens (genitive mentis) "mind") is the progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the body beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Although dementia is far more common in the geriatric population, it may occur in any stage of adulthood. This age cutoff is defining, as similar sets of symptoms due to organic brain dysfunction are given different names in populations younger than adulthood (see, for instance, developmental disorders).
Dementia is a non-specific illness syndrome (set of symptoms) in which affected areas of cognition may be memory, attention, language, and problem solving. Higher mental functions are affected first in the process. Especially in the later stages of the condition, affected persons may be disoriented in time (not knowing what day of the week, day of the month, month, or even what year it is), in place (not knowing where they are), and in person (not knowing who they are).
Symptoms of dementia can be classified as either reversible or irreversible, depending upon the etiology of the disease. Less than 10 percent of cases of dementia are due to causes which may presently be reversed with treatment. Causes include many different specific disease processes, in the same way that symptoms of organ dysfunction such as shortness of breath, jaundice, or pain are attributable to many etiologies. Without careful assessment of history, the short-term syndrome of delirium can easily be confused with dementia, because they have many symptoms in common. Some mental illnesses, including depression and psychosis, may also produce symptoms which must be differentiated from both delirium and dementia.
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