What does dementia mean

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Dementia actually refers to the mental development is not complete, resulting in a number of low IQ symptoms. We are most familiar with Alzheimer's disease, it will also be accompanied by a series of memory loss, their life can not take care of themselves and other characteristics, let's talk about what dementia means.

What does dementia mean

First, the occurrence of dementia is slow and insidious. Memory loss is the main core symptom. Early near memory impairment, learning ability of new things significantly decreased. With the further development of the disease, distant memory is also impaired. Thinking is slow and poor, the understanding and judgment of common things are getting worse and worse, and there may be obstacles in time, place and character orientation.

Second, another early symptom of dementia is a decline in the ability to learn new knowledge and master new skills. Their abilities of abstract thinking, generalization, comprehensive analysis and judgment were gradually decreased. The impairment of memory and judgment may lead to the loss of time, place, character and even self identification. So often day and night, do not know the way back or aimless roaming.

Third: in terms of emotion, patients may have emotional instability in the early stage, and gradually become indifferent and dull in the evolution of the disease. Sometimes emotions lose control and become superficial and changeable. Performance anxiety, depression, negative, or indifferent, or angry, easy to cry, easy to laugh, unable to control.

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The personality of some patients with dementia may also change, for example, they have no interest in anything and are not willing to actively communicate with others. At this time, as the family members of patients, they should be very patient with them and don't give up on them.