- Introduction
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Prevention
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Caregiving
- Coping with Emotional Changes
- Coping with Memory Loss
- Costs and Insurance
- Creating a Daily Routine
- Exercise
- Health and Wellbeing of the Caregiver
- Home Safety Adjustments
- Mental Exercises
- Respite Care
- Talking to Children about Alzheimer's
- Talking to Friends about Alzheimer's
- Telling Someone They Have Alzheimer's
- Transition to Assisted Living
- Transition to Nursing Home
- Work
- Related Conditions
- Resources
What Causes Dementia?
Dementia is a loss of brain function over weeks, months, or years that occurs with certain diseases. It affects memory, thinking, language, judgment, and behavior. Similar changes that occur over hours or a day or two is called
Metabolism refers to all the physical and chemical processes in the body. Dementia due to
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Can medications cause dementia?
A reader asks Joe and Teresa Graedon of The People's Pharmacy if his mother's sudden dementia could have been brought on by the Darvocet, Lexapro,... Read more »
Dementia often missed as cause of death
Many health officials fail to cite dementia as a cause of death, a new study has found. Researchers examined the medical records and death... Read more »
Alzheimer
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
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Fast food linked to Alzheimer's disease
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