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dementia
dementia (di-men-shă) n. a chronic and progressive deterioration of behaviour and higher intellectual function due to organic brain disease, which is usually a condition of old age (
senile d.) but can occur in youth or middle age. It is marked by memory disorders, changes in personality, deterioration in personal care, impaired reasoning ability, and disorientation.
d. with Lewy bodies the second most common cause of dementia after Alzheimer's disease. See
Lewy bodies.
multi-infarct d. dementia resulting from the destruction of brain tissue by a series of small strokes. See
Alzheimer's disease,
Pick's disease.
www.alzheimers.org.uk/Facts_about_dementia/What_is_dementia/index.htm Information about dementia from the Alzheimer's Society
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Dementia: diagnosis and management in the elderly.
Magazine article from: Consultant; 4/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...in the management of the two main causes of dementia in the elderly: DAT and vascular dementia.[1] OVERVIEW The management of dementia, especially of progressive, frequently long-term dementias such as DAT, presents complex challenges...
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Vascular dementia. (Featured CME Topic: Stroke).(medical research)
Magazine article from: Southern Medical Journal; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...brain, large or small, can cause dementia. What is not known is how often this...factors and underlying degenerative dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease. We know that so-called mixed dementia (i.e., combined degenerative...
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Dementia in the millennium.
Magazine article from: MedSurg Nursing; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Dementia refers to a progressive syndrome of decreasing...Beginning at age 65, the rate of dementia doubles every 5 years (Richards &...professionals alike about the relationship between dementia and Alzheimer disease. Dementia is the...
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Dementia and Cerebrovascular Disease
Magazine article from: Mayo Clinic Proceedings; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...important cause of cognitive impairment and dementia in elderly patients. This review highlights...the role of cerebrovascular disease in dementia, areas in which consensus is emerging...agreement on clinical definitions of vascular dementia is incomplete. Despite the barriers...
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Dementia month
Magazine article from: Mental Health Nursing; 1/1/2006; ; 644 words
; Radio and Television Dementia month In November, Radio 4 ran a month-long series on dementia as part of its You and Yours consumer affairs programme. Each day, people with dementia, carers and professionals discussed a wide...
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Dementia has big impact on residential aged care.
M2 Presswire; 6/10/2004; 700+ words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-10 June 2004-AIHW: Dementia has big impact on residential aged care...M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06112004 Dementia has the greatest impact on the provision...and Welfare (AIHW). The impact of dementia on the health and aged care systems states...
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Dementia: A cross-cultural perspective on risk factors
Magazine article from: Generations; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Dementia is one of the most devastating mental...review of research on the frequency of dementia and the factors that put people at risk...little research has been conducted about dementia in these groups, including differences...
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Dementia is creating a financial black hole
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 3/3/2007; 700+ words
; ...Society, by 2050 the numbers of people with dementia in the UK will more than double to 1...population ages, the number of people with dementia will grow substantially. It also shows that dementia costs the UK pounds17 billion a year...
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Dementia in the elderly
Magazine article from: Drug Topics; 10/19/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...all cases of senile dementia are of the Alzheimer...about 20% are vascular dementias. In Scandinavia...factor for any type of dementia. A family history of dementia is also a factor, especially for dementias due to genetically...
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Dementia and younger people
Magazine article from: Community Practitioner; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Denbighshire that has revolutionised dementia care for younger people in Wales Innovation...husband, newly diagnosed with early onset dementia and his wife proved the catalyst for...family feeling the strain of early onset dementia provided the impetus for the establishment...
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Dementia
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
...second most common form of dementia in the elderly. It is unclear...memory. In multi-infarct dementia, blood clots can dislodge...brain cells and a stroke. Dementias that are caused by the blockage...generally known as vascular dementia. This type of dementia can...
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Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Aging
DEMENTIA WITH LEWY BODIES Dementia with Lewy bodies is a comparatively new diagnostic entity. Formal...occurs. Depending on the study, it may vie with fronto-temporal dementia as the next most common neurodegenerative cause of dementia after...
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Vascular dementia
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Vascular dementia Definition Dementia is a decline in a person's mental capacities and intellectual...to affect the person's normal daily functioning. Vascular dementia is dementia that is caused by disease of the blood vessels of...
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Dementia: Ethical Issues
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Aging
DEMENTIA: ETHICAL ISSUES There has been much progress in the ethics of dementia care. Dementia is a syndrome (i.e., a cluster of symptoms) that can be caused by a myriad of diseases. The most common disease cause of irreversible, progressive...
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Vascular Dementia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Aging
...VEINS See Vascular disease VASCULAR DEMENTIA Introduction Vascular dementias (VaDs) are the second most common causes of dementia, but much still needs to be done...In the first instance, vascular dementias (the plural is used because unlike...
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