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What does dementia mean?

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Noun
  1. (pathology) A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
  2. Madness or insanity.
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Before you start to panic, there is a crucial difference between dementia and general absent-mindedness.
He was suffering from total amnesia and dementia praecox and was duly incarcerated in an asylum in Rodez in central France.
It can be difficult to distinguish akathisia from the agitation that is often present in patients with dementia.
An innovative project aimed at providing accommodation to older people with dementia and respite care for long term carers has been launched.
They take the pressure off carers through respite care and ensure the person with dementia spends that time doing something they enjoy.
The cognitive changes in this dementia differ from those in Alzheimer's disease.

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