This site is designed to provide patients with dementia, their carers and family members with helpful resources and information.
Dementia is a decline in mental abilities or cognitive functions such as memory, language, reasoning, planning, recognising, or identifying people or objects. This decline is beyond what might be expected from normal aging...
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Dementia is marked by a gradual impoverish-ment of thought and other mental activities that eventually affect almost every aspect of mental life...
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The goal of a diagnosis is to eliminate any other possible condition (reversible or irreversible) that could be creating dementia-like symptoms. For instance, it is important to make a distinction between dementia and depression...
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Memory complaints are common within the elderly population, and their frequency usually increases with age. Decline of memory function is a normal process of aging, but they also may be the result of a pathological condition such as Alzheimer's disease. The process of distinguishing between normal and pathological changes is not straightforward. An important difference is that, contrary to pathological changes, changes due...
read moreDementia is usually caused by degeneration in the cerebral cortex, the part of the brain responsible for thoughts, memories, actions, and personality. Death of brain cells in this region leads to the cognitive impairments that characterise dementia.
Some causes of dementia are treatable. These include, among others, ...