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What type of amnesia is seen most often in people with senile dementia?
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Amnesia and dementia are two different diseases. While amnesia is more often than not, temporary, dementia is a long term disease that progressively worsens.
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What neurological disorder causes forgetfulness?
Alzheimer's disease is a common neurological disorder that causes forgetfulness and memory loss. It is characterized by the accumulation of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain, leading to cognitive decline over time.
What does the term dementia mean to you?
Dementia is a general term for a decline in cognitive function severe enough to interfere with daily life. It can affect memory, thinking, language, judgment, and behavior, and is often associated with aging. It is not a normal part of aging and is caused by various diseases or conditions affecting the brain.
How do you use the word senile in a sentence?
Some of the elderly mayor's critics contended that he was becoming senile.
Do people with anterograde amnesia ask questions?
Yes, individuals with anterograde amnesia can ask questions. However, they may struggle with retaining new information and forming new memories, including remembering the answers to the questions they ask.
What is senile myocardial degeneration?
Senile myocardial degeneration refers to age-related changes in the structure and function of the heart, particularly in elderly individuals. These changes may include fibrosis, stiffening of the heart muscle, and alterations in the conduction system of the heart. It can lead to decreased cardiac function and an increased risk of heart-related conditions.
Can older cats go senile?
Yes, but not as often as we do. They get it from certain illnesses.
Senile keratosis and warts are often removed by application of which liquid?
liquid nitrogen
What age can you have dementia?
Typically, dementia is seen as an elderly person's disorder. It generally affects those who are above age 65 or so. "Early onset" dementia refers to cases where people in their 50s or 60s are affected. There have been cases where people are diagnosed as young as their 30s but those are extraordinarily rare occurrences.
What is a person capacity feelings and wishes when they have dementia?
In dementia the ability to have feelings is largely intact. In fact, it is often enhanced as evidenced by mood swings. How much dementia patients can formulate and express wishes depends on the stage of dementia.
What is a slowly progressive decline in mental abilities including memory thinking and judgment that is often accompanied by personality changes?
Dementia
What is myocardial degeneration?
Senile myocardial degeneration is degeneration of the heart. Often a heart valve has to be replaced because of this degeneration.
Why don't we call the dementia that people exhibit all through December as Christmas Psychosis?
That term is often used, as well as Christmas-itis.
