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What is Dementia?
Dementia is not a specific disease, but is rather a syndrome characterized by deterioration in a person’s cognitive function. Often, this cognitive decline affects multiple domain including thinking ability, behavior, and ability to perform daily tasks. The commonest sign of dementia is poor short term memory, whereby the person will have difficulties recalling recent events, misplaces belongings, forgetting names of familiar contacts and asking questions repetitively. They may also have troubles understanding spatial relationships like judging distance, forgetting directions easily getting lost in familiar places and disorientation.
People living with dementia will find it difficult to make complex decisions, they may lose the ability to perform certain task that they were good at, some may have language impairment such as word finding difficulties. In later stages of the disease, 80% of people living with dementia may experience mood and behavioural changes such as apathy (lack of motivation), agitation, aggression, depression or anxiety.
Dementia has many types, and Alzheimer’s dementia is the most common type of dementia. There are also other subtypes of dementia such as vascular dementia, Lewy Body dementia, and frontotemporal dementia.
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