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100 page practical guide to understanding Dementia and what you can do about it!

Extracts from the publication:
"Emotional responses are still likely to be intact despite severe memory problems."

"Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia are the two most common causes of dementia."

"As I ponder on their lives and mine it is with deep gratitude that I remember the chances they have given me to live a full and privileged life. It is likely I will live for some years yet and see my grandchildren grow to be young adults, however it is likely that I will suffer from dementia despite the daily cross words. I hope I can enter this phase of my life with dignity and rectitude and not be too obnoxious."

"Dementia is defined as an acquired syndrome of decline in memory and at least one other mental capacity such as language, orientation (visuo-spatial), or planning and thinking (executive function) sufficient to interfere with social or occupational functioning in an alert person. “Mild Cognitive Impairment," is a more mild condition not associated with functional impairment but sometimes progressing to dementia. And of course we all tend to become forgetful and vague as a condition of aging."

Dementia is often associated with loss of memory; however there are different types of dementia and not all show early memory failure. Sometimes onset is marked by changes in mood or behaviour, and often, so gradually we find it hard to connect this with a disease like dementia. Importantly there are other reasons people start to forget things, such as age, depression, stress, hormone and vitamin deficiencies, physical ailments like brain tumours and infections and all these can be happening separately or together only making it even more confusing.