Dementia

09/05/2012

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17/04/2012

Written By Grace Rattue
Copyright: Medical News Today
Article Date: 16 Apr 2012 - 10:00 PDT

In the March 22 edition of Neuron, researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, reveal that a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

06/04/2012

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06/04/2012

The challenges of Alzheimer's Disease for both the patient and caregiver.

06/04/2012

MANAGEMENT

Some of the greatest challenges of caring for a loved one with dementia are the personality and behavior changes that often occur. You can best meet these challenges by using creativity, flexibility, patience and compassion. It also helps to not take things personally and maintain your sense of humor.

06/04/2012

CARE-GIVING

As caregivers, we often use intuition to help us decide what to do. No one ever gave us lessons on how to relate to someone with memory loss. Unfortunately, dealing with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias is counterintuitive. That is, often the right thing to do is exactly opposite that which seems like the right thing to do.

06/04/2012

GETTING A DIAGNOSIS

Proper differential diagnosis between the types of Dementia will require, at least, referral to a specialist, e.g; a geriatric internist, geriatric psychiatrist, neurologist, neuropsychologist or geropsychologist. Duration of symptoms must normally exceed six months for a diagnosis of dementia or organic brain syndrome to be made. The "gold standard" for diagnosing dementia, autopsy, does not help the patient or caregivers. Therefore, doctors have devised a number of techniques to help identify dementia with reasonable accuracy while the patient is still alive.

06/04/2012

About Dementia
Dementia is a serious loss of cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal aging. It may be static, the result of a unique global brain injury, or progressive, resulting in long-term decline due to damage or disease in the body. Although dementia is far more common in the geriatric population, it may occur in any stage of adulthood.