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    dementia
    /dɪˈmɛnʃə/

    noun

    • 1. a condition characterized by progressive or persistent loss of intellectual functioning, especially with impairment of memory and abstract thinking, and often with personality change, resulting from organic disease of the brain.

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  3. 3 days ago · Dementia is a decline in cognitive function that includes problems with thought processing, judgement, reasoning, memory, communication, and behavior control that have an impact on a person's ability to live a normal life.

    • Esther Heerema, MSW
  4. 4 days ago · It describes a group of symptoms affecting memory, thinking and social abilities that can interfere with and hamper day to day functioning in a person. While dementia generally involves memory loss, memory loss can be caused due to other reasons and hence that alone is not symptom of dementia.

  5. 4 days ago · What is dementia? Dementia is not a specific illness but a collection of symptoms that point to a decline in cognitive abilities. This decline can show up in different ways, including memory loss, difficulty with reasoning, and challenges with communication. Dementia symptoms can manifest in subtle ways.

  6. 3 days ago · Dementia is a general term for memory loss and decline in mental ability that is severe enough to interfere with the activities of daily living. Dementia can result from a variety of causes, which fall into three categories: (1) potentially reversible, (2) non-progressive, and (3) progressive.

  7. 5 days ago · Dementia is a collective term that describes various symptoms of cognitive decline, such as forgetfulness, confusion, and changes in behavior. It is not a specific disease but a group of...

  8. 3 days ago · They define Alzheimer's disease through three major stages: preclinical, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and Alzheimer's dementia. Diagnosis in the preclinical stage is complex and focuses on asymptomatic individuals; the latter two stages describe individuals experiencing symptoms.

  9. 18 hours ago · Palliative care is conceptualised as on-going from diagnosis to end of life. The evidence considered leads to a key recommendation that existing measures to define end of life in people with dementia, based on cognition and ambulatory function, may be ineffective and may not recognise unmet needs at end of life.