Unveiling the Mystery: A Glimpse into the World of Dementia
According to World Health Organisation, Dementia is one of the major causes of disability and dependency amongst older people.
It is a brain syndrome of a chronic or progressive nature of a deterioration of the ability to the thought process.
There are many different forms of dementia.
Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia are responsible for up to 90% of cases of dementia and i is not surprising and unnatural for a dementia patient to have a mixed type of dementia.
Vascular dementia occurs when small blood clots prevent oxygen from reaching brain tissue causing strokes or mini strokes.
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