between Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease?
. Dementia is a loss of mental function in two or more areas such as language, memory, visual and spatial abilities, or judgement severe enough to interfere with daily life. Dementia itself is not a disease but a broader set of symptoms that accompanies certain diseases. Alzheimer’s disease is one type of dementia, the most prevalent, accounting for over 50 percent of all cases. It is a degenerative disease that destroys cells in the brain, a condition that involves gradual memory loss, decline in the ability to perform routine tasks, impaired thinking and behavior, loss of language skills, impaired judgement, and personality change. It can last from 3 to 20 years from the time of onset of symptoms. Other types of dementia is vascular dementia, commonly referred to as a stroke, head-trauma dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and Huntington’s disease. (For a definition of these diseases scroll to the bottom of this page).
