Dementia Guidelines

Overview of Dementia

Dementia is a condition that occurs when the cognitive functions begin to decline, which affects his intellectual and social. This decrease causes a loss of quality of life worsened by mental problems.

the age-related dementia may affect the sense of arrest, a source of difficulty concentrating, and can change personality. About 5% of people over 65 suffer from Alzheimer's disease, which is the most common form of senile dementia. This percentage increases to 20 to 25% among seniors who have attained the age of 80 years or more.

There are various treatment options for dementia by age, as the case of the person and severity of dementia. These treatment options range from tranquilizers, antidepressants, cognitive enhancing drugs, and anti-convulsion.

Caring for a patient with dementia can be difficult, but the following guidelines apply: remove clutter from the house, leave furniture and other objects in the same place so as not to confuse the patient, encourage the person to engage in activities he or she can still carry out or perform (for example, goes for exercises in the gym or taking long walks), speaking slowly and quietly and giving the person an idea or instruction at a time.

There are also local support groups for patients with dementia by age and their caregivers.

Symptoms of Age Dementia

Although we often forget things like exactly where we parked the car, or when we put our keys, or objects that we did not buy at the supermarket, this form of forgetting is normal and are not considered medically dementia. The occasional failure is caused by the daily stress we all go through the days and problems that plague us at home and office.

senile dementia, on the other hand, is not a normal part of aging. It is a debilitating disease and is progressive, although in most cases it does not require emergency treatment.

symptoms of dementia include age:

• Sudden loss of memory, even of recent events
• Inability to learn new things,
• frequent confusion and a significant degree of forgetting and misplacing things,
• Tendency to recur
• Marked changes in personality (higher degree of irritability, antisocial behavior, sadness or joy unexplained)
• Depression, decreased social contact
• Agitation - people with dementia will try to escape even if it's raining outside, or who often try to "escape" is placed in an institution, or refuse to have their daily bath.

Because this disease is not curable, but gradually increases with age, it is important that patients are cared for by family members to tender at once, and caregivers. In addition, caregivers asigned to care for these patients should have some if not in full knowledge of what causes the disease.