Some people always ask the same questions
repeatedly. They experience sudden mood
swings frequently, and feel very agitated
and anxious very easily. At times, they
wander about aimlessly, yell, start
crying, or display emotions of
combativeness and aggression. Sleep
disturbances, inappropriate sexual
behaviour, hallucinations and delusions
are a part of life for these folks too.
These persons are afflicted with Dementia.
How do you understand dementia?
What symptoms of dementia have you seen
exhibited among our elders?
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CarolDiane
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General Dementia are usually apparenent
with older people and it starts off with
very mild to moderate forgetfulness. Some
stay in that categorie while other go a
bit deeper into the desease into a much
more fearfull forgetfulness. Forgeting
occasions, events, things that happend
yesterday and years ago. While on the
other hand, slight short term dementia may
just have occasional forgetfulness. Things
like what they had for breakfast that
morning or where they went yesterday. The
slight stage normally the person is very
aware that they can not remember as well
relating to the present, where a worse
case would not remember years ago which is
what we call long term memory loss. Short
term memory loss in the elderly is not
uncommon at all. Yet there are some up
into thier 90s that can remember when they
were a child and who thier best friend was
and where they were born.
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