What is Dementia?
“Dementia” is a phrase which refers to a disease citing to set of mental conditions like Parkinson’s disease, vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy Bodies and Fronto-temporal dementia. However, it is mostly associated to aging and a disease called Alzheimer’s.
It often disintegrates individual aspects like awareness, perception, reasoning and judgment which are important part of interpersonal skills and withdraw them from society. As a result, dementia cuts the person from the society creating life dull, dependent and risky.
Many people believe that both dementia and Alzheimer’s can be used interchangeably since both are same which does not hold true.
In dementia, the person loses his ability to make decision, language skills, loses focus and memory loss initially. With this evolving gradually, he loses his interpersonal skills to interact with the society and can’t do day-to-day activities. And gradually as the disease reaches the later stage, the person loses complete hold on remembering place, time and locations.
In Alzheimer’s, it destroys brain cells and hence triggers dementia. Approximately 70 percent of dementia’s cases are results because of Alzheimer’s. It destroys important nerve cells of brain which are crucial for thinking and memory process. Transportation of information in-between nerve cells is possible because of a chemical which this disease destroys. This indicates that lower the chemical content, lower are the chances of getting cognitive abilities transferred from one cell to another.
Symptoms
Listed below are most common symptoms in dementia disease:
Memory loss: Patient easily forgets things and won’t be able to recall them in future.
Language challenges: The affected person will often find it difficult to construct a simple sentence. This occurs due to their incapability to remember names of place, instances, numbers and situation.
Difficulty performing daily tasks: People are not able to complete their daily tasks like preparing tea or coffee, ironing and combing hair.
Distraction: They will not be able to focus or pay attention to a task and will find it difficult to complete them.
A change in personality: A patient’s personality gets altered due to their inability of completing daily tasks, memory loss, sentence structuring.
Disorientation: They will forget things which are known or familiar to them like their age, way to home, place or home.
Withdrawn: They are disconnected from the society because of memory loss and inability to make short sentences.
Diagnosis
Various test involving, blood, brain evaluation and vitamin deficiencies are done if person is suspected suffering from such disease. Psychological tests to test their memory, language, decision skills are done. Also brain mapping test like MRI are one of the first tests conducted to find if the person has suffered from any strokes, if he has been taking too much drugs or may be suffering from severe headaches in past.
Treatment
Until now, we don’t have any treatment for dementia, but research is still on to develop a remedy to slow the evolvement of dementia.
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