dementia, learn it.. fight it..

Have you heard about dementia? There are more and more people suffered from it. They also famous people who diagnosed with this disease. For example, one of the United States president.
We often heard about Alzheimer's disease. It is also one form of dementia. So we must understanding dementia well.

Dementia is a disease which is characterized by in progressive decline of the brain cognitive function. The affected areas are memory, language, problem solving and attention. The first that was affected is the higher mental function.

Dementia symptoms can be irreversible or reversible. It depends of the etiology of the disease. People must differ dementia with mental illnesses like depresion and psychosis which can happen in dementia's people.



Less than 10 percents people can be reversed with dementia treatment. But for your knowledge, there is no cure for this disease. The best you can do is prevent it.