The terms ‘dementia’ and ‘Alzheimer’s disease’ are different because dementia is use to refer to a group of abnormal symptoms cause by brain degeneration, which can be cause by many factors. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia, which makes most people think that when they have dementia, it means they have Alzheimer’s disease.
Symptoms of dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease progress slowly and gradually. The first important symptom of Alzheimer’s patients is short-term memory loss. Which is a symptom similar to the natural memory loss in the elderly. But as time goes by, 80-90 percent of patients will have behavioral or psychiatric symptoms as well. These behavioral symptoms are what make caring for patients more difficult, especially those who are aggressive.
In the first stage, patients will have a deteriorating memory that they can feel. They like to ask the same questions repeatedly, repeat the same things over and over. Get confuse about their direction, and start to get stress, easily upset, and depressed.
In the middle stage: The patient’s symptoms become more obvious, their memory worsens. They leave the house without any destination เล่นเกมคาสิโน UFABET ทันสมัย ฝากถอนง่าย. And their behavior changes significantly, such as from being calm they become irritable, aggressive, and speak rudely.
The final stage is consider a severe stage. Patients will respond less to their surroundings, their health will deteriorate similar to bedridden patients, they will eat less, move less or not move at all, cannot help themselves, leak urine or feces due to inability to hold it in, and lose the ability to live daily lives. They have to rely on others for simple things such as feeding and bathing, etc. In addition, weak immunity causes complications and infections that lead to death.
Finally, in the current treatment of dementia, doctors will prescribe medication to patients. What doctors always tell patients and relatives is that currently, there is no medication that can cure dementia, especially Alzheimer’s disease, completely. Taking medication will help slow down the progression of the disease, so the brain deteriorates more slowly. If symptoms of dementia are detect early, the treatment results will be better and the deterioration will be slower.