Articles in the Alzheimers & other Dementias Category
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What is dementia and in what ways it affects the elderly?
In the elderly dementia can produce significant deficits in functional abilities and mental health, which can affect their safety and independent living at home. Elderly people face certain difficulty in doing their basic self care needs such as bathing, hygiene, and dressing, facing problems with taking timely medications, cooking and eating adequate meals, prone to injuries and falling down two to work coordination, problems in communicating, weakness and poor safety awareness..
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Brief introduction to Alzheimer’s & other Dementias
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, a serious brain disorder resulting from the damage to the brain’s nerve cells which impacts the everyday living like memory loss and other cognitive changes (The psychological result of perception, learning and reasoning).
Alzheimer’s is a degenerative disease which progresses from mild forgetfulness which is severe enough to affect their work, lifelong hobbies and even the social life…
