A Place For Mom's Guide To Dementia Information
You've probably heard the term dementia before, whether from friends, or the media, or perhaps from doctors, and you may have been uncertain about what it means. Don't feel bad about it, because you're not alone. In fact, a fair amount of confusion and misconception surrounds dementia information. The media, and even some in the medical community, have increasingly begun to use the word "dementia" as a euphemism for Alzheimer's disease. It's perhaps a less upsetting term than Alzheimer's precisely because of its vagueness, but that doesn't mean the two are equivalent. Having Alzheimer's means having a disease that will cause one kind of dementia, but having dementia doesn't necessarily mean having Alzheimer's.
So we'd like to help clarify things for you by explaining how dementia can affect a person, what can cause it, and some of the ways that doctors can treat it once its underlying disease is diagnosed. The following dementia information is organized into four sections which are meant to be read in order because some of the later sections reference dementia information in the earlier sections, but please feel free to skip around if you've heard some of it before. The sections are...
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