Dementia Symptoms

DEMENTIA

DESCRIPTION

Dementia is a term used to describe a group of symptoms affecting memory, thinking and social abilities severely enough to interfere with your daily life. It isn’t a specific disease can cause dementia. Though dementia generally involves memory loss, memory loss has different causes.

Symptoms –

Memory loss

Difficulty communicating

Visual difficulty

Problem solving and reasoning difficulty

Difficulty in handling complex tasks

Personality changes

Depression

Hallucinations

Risk factors –

Older age

Family history

Down syndrome

Diagnosis and tests –

Cognitive and neurological test

Brain scans

Psychiatric evaluation

Genetic tests

Blood test

Treatment –

Medications

Therapies