Dementia is basically a health condition that is very common to old people, and it is described as a group of symptoms that can affect their activities of daily living, which include their social abilities, their memory, and their way of thinking, and dementia is also called as senility. There are five different types of dementia, namely the vascular dementia, which can be caused by damages to the vessels that functions by supplying blood to the human brain; the Alzheimer’s disease, which is also recognized as the most common cause of dementia and the patients have tangles and plaques on their own brain; the mixed dementia, in which it may be a combination of various types of dementia like lewy body dementia, vascular dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease; the lewy body dementia, in which the brain of the patients have abnormal balloonlike clumps of protein; and the frontotemporal demetia, that may be characterized by the degeneration or breakdown of nerve cells, as well as their connections in the temporal and frontal lobes. Parkinson’s disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, normal-pressure hydrocephalus, anoxia or hypoxia, brain tumors, poisoning, subdural hematomas, infections and immune disorders, metabolic problems and endocrine abnormalities, medication side effects, nutritional deficiencies, TBI or traumatic brain injury, and Huntington’s disease, are just some of the most common diseases or conditions that may be linked to senility or dementia. Some of the most common complications of senility or dementia include inability to perform self-care tasks, death, poor nutrition, pneumonia, and personal safety challenges; and some of the various risk factors of such condition include smoking, vitamin and nutritional deficiencies, diet and exercise, heavy alcohol use, cardiovascular risk factors, depression, diabetes, and sleep apnea. Some of the most common ways that can help prevent the development of dementia include quitting smoking, keeping your mind active, being socially and physically active, getting a quality of sleep, maintaining a healthy diet, treating health conditions, getting enough vitamins, and managing the most common cardiovascular risk factors.
In today’s medical world, dementia or senility is already recognized as a very brutal mental illness and the signs that are categorized to be red flags include having trouble in carrying out any normal tasks or activities of daily living, short-term loss of memory, mood swings or mood changes, finding it difficult to solve their problems, inability to find the right words to say, confusion, not caring anymore or losing their empathy to other people, sudden repetition, finding it difficult to cope up with the changes, and losing their sense of direction. Combating dementia may be done through the help of a care designed to help and assist people who are suffering or struggling with memory issues or memory loss, and this is basically called as memory care.