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Types of Dementia
Causes of Dementia
Treatment and Diagnosis
Treatment and Diagnosis
100
When a person shows symptoms of more than one type of dementia
What is mixed dementia?
100

Dementia is often found among these individuals and often marked by difficulty with reasoning and judgement

What is Parkinson's Disease?

100

There are three stages of dementia

How many stages of dementia are there?

100
There is no cure for dementia
What is the cure for dementia?
200
Alzheimer Disease
Which disease accounts for 50-75% of dementia world wide?
200

Protein deposits found on nerves cells in the brain

What is Lewi Bodies Dementia

200
No, there is no test
Is there a test for dementia diagnosis?
200
Early-stage dementia, moderate or middle-stage dementia and severe or late-stage dementia
What are the three main types of dementia?
300
It occurs as a result of strokes, and is thought to account for 20-30% of cases of dementia.
What is vascular dementia?
300
Risk factors include family history of the condition, Down syndrome, and a common genetic polymorphism
What are the risk factors for Alzheimer disease?
300
Doctors use a range of information to reach a diagnosis. This can include a person's medical history, input from a person's family or carer, and different tests for changes in both cognitive function and behaviour
What are the main methods that doctors use to reach a diagnosis?
300
Treatments focus on improving symptoms, as there is no cure to slow the process of dementia down
What do treatments for dementia focus on?
400
Trauma and Disease
What other factors can trigger dementia?
400
The main risk factor for most types of dementia is advancing age.
What is the main risk factor for any type of dementia?
400

Jupiter

What is the largest planet?

400
Identifying the stage of dementia in a person is in is difficult as there are overlaps between the stages
Why is identifying the stage that a person is in very difficult?
500

AIDS/HIV, Parkinson Disease, Huntingdon disease and Creutzfeld-Jakob disease.

What diseases can trigger dementia?

500
Strokes and old age
What are the risk factors of vascular dementia?
500

Better cardiovascular health, maintaining physically, socially and cognitively active lifestyles throughout middle age, and higher levels of education about dementia

What are the main ways of preventing the onset of dementia?

500
Dementia is typically not recognised as a terminal condition by patients and their families.
Is dementia recognised as a terminal condition?