- a brain disease that cause a long term and often gradual decrease in the ability to think and remember a persons daily functioning.
Common Symptoms include emotional problems with language, decrease in motivation. A persons consciousness is usually not affected. Dementia diagnosis requires a change from a persons usual mental functioning and a greater decline than one would expect due to aging.
Most common type of dementia is ALZHIEMERS.
More than one type of dementia may exist in the same person.
