Dementia

When my grandfather was around last time, he suffered from Alzheimer’s disease during the days before he passed away. That time I witnessed how scary and painful the Alzheimer’s disease can be to the patient and also to the family members that take care of the patient.

A lot of times we thought Alzheimer’s disease can be the most torturing and scariest disease a person could ever get, but then actually there are more. Have you ever heard of dementia? How’s your understanding of dementia? Dementia is actually a complicated and often confusing health issue. It is normally chronic and progressive problem of cognition that affects the memory, judgment, and so on. Alzheimer’s disease is just one type of dementia thus there are more serious and suffering disease than Alzheimer’s. Actually by understanding dementia can help the patient and the family members.

According to the experts, it is helpful to recognize and track the dementia symptoms at the early stage so that the patient can receive the dementia treatments as soon as possible. This is to help the patient and also the family members to deal with the disease and to reduce the impact of the disease to the patient. Therefore, it is helpful and recommended to know more about the disease and the symptoms and discuss with the health care professionals in dealing with the disease. All the best.