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Dementia describes a group of symptoms and is not a disease. Alzheimer’s is a disease that evidences symptoms of dementia.
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When someone is told they have dementia, it means that they have significant memory problems as well as other cognitive difficulties, and that these problems are severe enough to get in the way of daily living.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia.
Alzheimer’s disease affects memory, thinking, concentration, and judgment; and, ultimately impedes a person’s ability to perform normal daily activities.
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Dementia describes a group of symptoms and is not a disease. Alzheimer’s is a disease that evidences symptoms of dementia.
One of the most frequently asked questions I receive (FAQ) is,
What is the Difference Between Alzheimer’s and Dementia
Some believe Alzheimer’s is worse than dementia. Some people use the words interchangeably (like me). This of course is the source of much of the confusion about how dementia and Alzheimer’s differ.
Let’s get right to it.
When you to the grocery store you usually visit the section where you will find the fruit. You will see many different kinds of fruit like: apples, oranges, bananas and pears. Each is a kind, or type of fruit.
Let’s imagine you could go into a store and visit the dementia section. What would you see?
You would see types of dementia like:
1. Alzheimer’s Disease
2. Lewy Body Dementia
3. Vascular Dementia
4. Frontotemporal Dementia
So if an apple is a type of fruit; then Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia.
The list above includes the biggest and most common types (kinds) of dementia?
There are of course many things that either contribute to or cause dementia. These include: Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, depression, and alcoholism just to name a few.
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Dementia is not a disease. Dementia actually refers to a group of symptoms.
When someone is told they have dementia, it means that they have significant memory problems as well as other cognitive difficulties, and that these problems are severe enough to get in the way of daily living.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia.
Alzheimer’s disease affects memory, thinking, concentration, and judgment; and, ultimately impedes a person’s ability to perform normal daily activities.
Alzheimer’s disease accounts for 60 percent or more of dementia cases.
Dementia describes a group of symptoms and is not a disease. Alzheimer’s is a disease that evidences symptoms of dementia.
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