Researchers have uncovered changes that may contribute to cognitive decline associated with ageing.
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Elderly people with dementia who are given antipsychotics are more likely to end up in the hospital
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Age-associated and neurologic diseases are a major cause of death - yet we often give the credit to the conditions it causes, not to the basic underlying problem. Nutrients may help more than drugs to ward off possible problems.
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Dementia facts and information
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If you suspect someone has dementia, early evaluation, information and support can make life easier for you and your family member.
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Preventing dementia
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Risk factors for dementia.
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Dementia caused behavioral problems are hard to treat with available medications.
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Frontotemporal dementia is a rare form of dementia caused by damage to the frontal lobe of the brain,
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A number of problems can cause agitation in persons with dementia. They are more easily agitated because the brain has physically changed and no longer functions in a healthy manner.
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Dual treatment of incontinence and dementia associated With functional decline
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Lewy body dementia can also be confused with other central nervous system diseases since disease classification is based on the clinical recognition of the grouping of symptoms in any patient under study. Many diseases share some of the same symptoms making diagnosis difficult and not always certain. Progressive supranulear palsy is one of the conditions that may be diagnosed in error as lewy body dementia and of course the reverse is also true.
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Multi-infarct dementia (MID), a common cause of dementia in the elderly, occurs when blood clots block small blood vessels in the brain and destroy brain tissue.
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Vascular dementia needs to be differentiated from other causes of dementia such as Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body type dementia, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, Parkinson's disease dementia, and frontal lobe tumours.
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Dementia producing conditions may classified as either reversible or permanent (non-reversible). This article discusses which conditions belong to each classification.
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