Parkinson's vs dementia
is a , often associated with diseases such as Alzheimer's, and characterized by a general decline in processes that affects the ability to perform everyday activities. This typically involves problems with memory, thinking, behavior, and motor control. Aside from memory impairment and a disruption in thought patterns, the most common symptoms of dementia include emotional problems, difficulties with language, and decreased motivation. The symptoms may be described as occurring in a continuum over several stages. Dementia is an incurable, progressive neurocognitive disorder, with varying degrees of severity and many forms or subtypes. The condition has a significant effect on the individual, their caregivers, and their social relationships in general. Dementia is not the same as age-related decline in cognition and memory, with no change in intelligence.
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Symptoms — what it feels like
- ·Decreased ability to think and remember, emotional problems, problems with language, decreased motivation, general decline in abilities
Causes — why it happens
- ·Neurodegeneration, disease, , traumatic brain injuries
How it's found
- · assessment, testing (mini–mental state examination), and
Prevention
- ·Addressing risk factors throughout the life course, e.g. preventing, reducing or treating hearing and vision loss, depression, head injury and risk factors (e.g. , ), decreasing smoking, and maintaining physical activity and stimulation
Treatment
- ·Varies but supportive care is given
Complications
- ·, , inability to perform self-care tasks, personal safety challenges, fractures from falls.
Outlook
- ·Varies, is a life limiting condition and life expectancy is usually shortened