What is Dementia definition?

Answer 1

A chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning.

Answer 2

Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.

Answer 3

Dementia is the progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Particularly affected areas may be memory, attention, language, and problem solving. In the later stages of the condition affected persons may be disoriented to time, place and person.

The many different causes of dementia can be classified as either reversible or irreversible. Less than 10% of cases of dementia are considered reversible, and even in these cases it usually is not fully reversed.

Answer 4

Explain what is meant by the term 'dementia.'

Answer 5

Dementia is a condition where there is a decline in cognitive function. The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer's disease.