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How do you detect the disease?

The evolution is progressive. The first and most important change is the loss of memory, especially for recent events, gradually evolving to a higher intensity, indicating the existence of a disease. This is often accompanied by difficulty performing everyday activities.

Initially, the patient feels that something is happening, and this is a very unpleasant and disturbing experience. However, with the progress of the disease concern disappears, becoming a problem for your family and friends.

What are the warning signs?

Many people in their daily lives suffer memory problems. If this condition is increasing, making your daily life can be a sign of dementia, requiring an evaluation by a physician, preferably a specialist as a clinical neurologist. Do not make judgments for himself and diagnoses, there may be disturbances of memory are not necessarily dementia. Read the rest of this entry »

Deficiency of vitamin B-12, also often associated with anemia.

- Hypothyroidism, liver failure and/or renal

- Diabetes with falls of glucose levels

- epilepsy

- Parkinson’s disease

What can you do?

In the early stages of the disease, there are practical ways to refresh your memory, for example, keeping a journal or use a board to leave notes. Some seniors who have no family, to avoid missing out on the street, always carry with you (usually around the neck) a kind of card with their picture, name and address or telephone number. Read the rest of this entry »

What is dementia?

The dementias are a type of brain disease. When a person has dementia, the brain cells deteriorate and lose their normal duties earlier than normal. This alteration in brain cells that the brain does not function properly, and slowly, patients lose their abilities and intellect.

The first symptoms usually consist of slight memory lapses and losses, the affected people forget things as common as the name of your husband or wife. Later, as the disease progresses, there are certain data such as date or place to meet, people do not recognize, forget conversations that have maintained, do not retain answers to questions about simple and even they are unable to fulfill orders that were made. We must pay special care when let out alone on the street, as it is often lost on routes that were previously known to themselves. Read the rest of this entry »