I have spent eight years promoting the importance of early diagnosis and treatment of dementia and am certain that misinformation, denial, and untrained GP’s are still the biggest factors preventing families from getting elderly loved ones properly evaluated. The mild and intermittently odd behaviors that gradually increase year after year continue to get chalked up to advancing age and nothing more. And even when it becomes very apparent that something is wrong, families delay dealing...
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Mental Status Tests and Cognitive Tests
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Neurocognitive testing is used to find out about a person's thinking abilities, and to determine whether these problems are improving or getting... Read more »
Dementia
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Dementia is a permanent decline in cognitive function and memory from a previous level of function.Dementia is a brain disorder with permanent loss... Read more »
Dementia
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Chronic brain syndrome; Lewy body dementia; DLB; Vascular dementia; Mild cognitive impairment; MCI SymptomsDementia symptoms include difficulty with... Read more »
Mental decline not always dementia
Some memory loss and verbal decline is normal with aging and shouldn't be confused with dementia, researchers warn. Studies suggest that the ability... Read more »
Mental status tests
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Mental status exam; Mental status testsNormal ValuesThe most commonly used test, the mini-mental state examination (MMSE) or Folstein test, is scored... Read more »
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