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Dementia in Latin words means "madness". It is a mental disorder where a person loses his cognitive ability due to a mental illnesses, accident or aging. Dementia is a continuous or progressive condition depending on the severity of mental damage or disease within the body itself. Unfortunately, dementia may occur to anyone and anytime during adulthood.

Once you are affected by various brain related injuries or illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease and stroke, you are prone of having dementia that may already be happening or could occur in the near future. Areas that are affected are memory, attention, language and problem solving. Dementia mainly reduces the ability of the brain to function properly.

Since dementia is a progressive disease, you will only see its symptoms to get worse overtime. The progression depends on the health of the affected individual.

Below are the known symptoms of dementia.

So what causes dementia? Since its a gradual condition, you may notice some memory problems on its initial stage, having difficulty carrying out tasks at home or at work. Once the person becomes increasingly dependent on other people mentally and emotionally, the person might already be experiencing dementia.

Causes of dementia includes the following conditions and situations.

1. Vascular disease
Not enough oxygen in the brain can cause our brain cells to die and wither overtime. Once this occurs, it can cause vascular dementia which are commonly seen in stroke victims.

2. Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's disease causes our brain to change progressively, thus resulting to loss of brain cells resulting to a severe memory loss. Alzheimer's disease is one of the most leading cause of dementia condition today.

3. Fixed Cognitive Impairment
Various types of brain injury may cause irreversible but fixed cognitive impairment. Traumatic brain injuries, stroke, epileptic seizures, acute hydrocephalus and alcohol and drug abuse may all cause fixed cognitive impairment which leads to dementia.

Once dementia is suspected, proper differential diagnosis must be applied by a specialist to help slow the down its symptoms. A six month diagnosis of dementia must be performed or various cognitive testing can be used at home. This can help in treating dementia symptoms.

If you think your loved once are suffering from this condition, give them immediate medical help from licensed professional such as psychiatrists or neurologists. Drugs, vaccines and other alternative treatments are readily available today. Remember, dementia cannot be prevented but you can do something to postpone its condition to get worse.

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