What is dementia, what are the causes and symptoms and how it is diagnosed and treated. There are different types of dementia.
The word ‘dementia’ describes a set of symptoms that may include memory loss and difficulties with thinking, problem-solving or language. These changes are often small to start with, but for someone with dementia they have become severe enough to affect daily life. A person with dementia may also experience changes in their mood or behaviour.
Dementia is caused when the brain is damaged by diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease or a series of strokes. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia, but not the only one. The specific symptoms that someone with dementia experiences will depend on the parts of the brain that are damaged and the disease that is causing the dementia.
Further information can be found at the websites below:
Alzheimer’s Society website – https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/
Wakefield and Five Towns local Alzheimer’s Society office
https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/custom_scripts/branch.php?branch=true&branchCode=12870
Carers UK – https://www.carersuk.org/
Carers Wakefield https://carerswakefield.org.uk/
Age UK Wakefield https://www.ageuk.org.uk/wakefielddistrict/
Dementia UK – https://www.dementiauk.org/;
Dementia Friends – https://www.dementiafriends.org.uk/;
DEEP (Dementia Engagement & Empowerment Project) – https://dementiavoices.org.uk/
Alzheimer’s Society “The dementia guide” (FREE comprehensive guide)
https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=2526;
Alzheimer’s Society webpage Living with Dementia publications – https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=2580
