Dementia
What could be worse than losing your mind, while your body has many years to run? Knowing that when you reach at least 80 years old, a third of the world’s populations will be diagnosed with dementia. More likely about 70% can be caused by Alzheimer’s disease. Dementia is the progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. With Dementia, possible areas that will be affected are memory, attention span, language, and even problem solving. In most cases with people dealing with dementia; they will be facing problems like not knowing what day it is or even what week it is, disoriented in time, not knowing where they are or what place it is, and even not knowing who
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Dementia is starting to become a well know disease that is starting to occur everywhere. In the article I have read that there has been increasing numbers and rising concerns about dementia for our future generations. It should be noted that we should all be aware of this disease on how we can better understand it. The purpose of this research paper is to have a better understanding of dementia and the affects the disease has on an individual. This paper is to help better understand not only the physical but the psychological effect of dementia and how it can change a person through development, and how dementia tends to happen to a person, but not everyone, as the person goes through the aging …show more content…
As you get older, your five senses are not as sharp as if you were 16 years old. At old age it is harder to process information and understand it right away. Once the information reaches the brain, it is analyzed and placed into the appropriate memory part of the brain. Many elderlies try or are simply not aware of it, but their sensory deficits because it discards some input if it comes too fast, and also the opposite occurs with short and long term memory. Although they are old, one common aspect that is likely to occur is that the control process may be less effective with age especially the ability to focus attention and inhibit irrelevant responses. These can be identified as normal signs of aging, and not confused with dementia. Dementia is a syndrome due to the disease of the brain, usually of a chronic or progressive nature, in which there is a disturbance of multiple higher cortical functions such as memory and
Dementia is starting to become a well know disease that is starting to occur everywhere. In the article I have read that there has been increasing numbers and rising concerns about dementia for our future generations. It should be noted that we should all be aware of this disease on how we can better understand it. The purpose of this research paper is to have a better understanding of dementia and the affects the disease has on an individual. This paper is to help better understand not only the physical but the psychological effect of dementia and how it can change a person through development, and how dementia tends to happen to a person, but not everyone, as the person goes through the aging …show more content…
As you get older, your five senses are not as sharp as if you were 16 years old. At old age it is harder to process information and understand it right away. Once the information reaches the brain, it is analyzed and placed into the appropriate memory part of the brain. Many elderlies try or are simply not aware of it, but their sensory deficits because it discards some input if it comes too fast, and also the opposite occurs with short and long term memory. Although they are old, one common aspect that is likely to occur is that the control process may be less effective with age especially the ability to focus attention and inhibit irrelevant responses. These can be identified as normal signs of aging, and not confused with dementia. Dementia is a syndrome due to the disease of the brain, usually of a chronic or progressive nature, in which there is a disturbance of multiple higher cortical functions such as memory and