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Understanding Dementia
Dementia is a pathological phenomenon, and is not a normal aging process. Many family members mistake the symptoms as the elderly being stubborn, acting up or simply because older people tend to become this way. As a result, they tend to overlook the importance of getting medical attention and maintenance. The fact is, they are ill and need to receive treatment.
Dementia is not a disease with only one symptom; instead it is a combination of a series of symptoms due to brain cell degeneration, causing memory loss and other diminished neurological functions.
The symptoms are not limited to memory loss, it can also affect other cognitive functions, including language skills, spatial reasoning, calculation ability, judgment, abstract thinking, attention span and various other functional regression. At the same time, disruptive behavior, personality change, paranoia or hallucinatory symptoms may appear, some may reach the severity that would affect interpersonal relationships and their ability to work.
Dementia is the most common disease of the century, following cancer. When there are early symptoms, it is critical to receive early treatment as well as daily maintenance.
Note: 2009 and 2011 Dementia Population Projection Comparison Source: Department of Health, Executive Yuan
Dementia is a pathological phenomenon, and is not a normal aging process. Many family members mistake the symptoms as the elderly being stubborn, acting up or simply because older people tend to become this way. As a result, they tend to overlook the importance of getting medical attention and maintenance. The fact is, they are ill and need to receive treatment.
Dementia is not a disease with only one symptom; instead it is a combination of a series of symptoms due to brain cell degeneration, causing memory loss and other diminished neurological functions.
The symptoms are not limited to memory loss, it can also affect other cognitive functions, including language skills, spatial reasoning, calculation ability, judgment, abstract thinking, attention span and various other functional regression. At the same time, disruptive behavior, personality change, paranoia or hallucinatory symptoms may appear, some may reach the severity that would affect interpersonal relationships and their ability to work.
Dementia is the most common disease of the century, following cancer. When there are early symptoms, it is critical to receive early treatment as well as daily maintenance.
Note: 2009 and 2011 Dementia Population Projection Comparison Source: Department of Health, Executive Yuan
Types of Dementia
Most patients belong to this category, among which the following three are the most common
1. Alzheimer’s Disease:
The most common type of dementia.
The most obvious, early symptom is memory loss, having difficulty keeping time, location and identifying individuals; more than two cognitive functional disabilities can be identified.
The most common type of dementia.
The most obvious, early symptom is memory loss, having difficulty keeping time, location and identifying individuals; more than two cognitive functional disabilities can be identified.
2. Frontotemporal lobe degeneration:
Brain disability tends to be caused by frontal and temporal lobes degenerations. Classic symptoms in the early stages include personality change and loss of behavioral control, and they tend to have irrational behaviors or actions or early symptoms of language difficulty, including difficulty in expressing thoughts, naming things and other gradual signs of degeneration. Average onset age is after 50.
Brain disability tends to be caused by frontal and temporal lobes degenerations. Classic symptoms in the early stages include personality change and loss of behavioral control, and they tend to have irrational behaviors or actions or early symptoms of language difficulty, including difficulty in expressing thoughts, naming things and other gradual signs of degeneration. Average onset age is after 50.
3. Dementia with Lewy Bodies:
In addition to cognitive function disability, other characteristic includes early signs of stiff body, shaking hands, unable to walk properly and repeatedly and inexplicably falling. Moreover, there are more obvious signs of psychological symptoms, ex: vivid visual or audio hallucinations, unstable moods or paranoia. Average onset age is after 70.
There is also Huntington’s Disease and others that cause dementia.
In addition to cognitive function disability, other characteristic includes early signs of stiff body, shaking hands, unable to walk properly and repeatedly and inexplicably falling. Moreover, there are more obvious signs of psychological symptoms, ex: vivid visual or audio hallucinations, unstable moods or paranoia. Average onset age is after 70.
There is also Huntington’s Disease and others that cause dementia.
Conventional treatment methods
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Currently dementia treatment can be divided into treatments with or without medication.
Treatments with medication cannot stop or revive the brain cells that are already damaged, but may alleviate the patient’s symptoms or delay the progression of the disease.
Treatments with medication cannot stop or revive the brain cells that are already damaged, but may alleviate the patient’s symptoms or delay the progression of the disease.
Non-medication Treatments：
Through adjustments of the environment (familiar, stable and invoking sense of security), arrangements of activities, change in communication methods, Cognitive and memory training, Reminiscence therapy, Bright-light therapy, massage, Music therapy, Aromatherapy, Pet therapy, Art therapy and other non-medication treatments, dementia patients’ psychological behavioral symptoms can be alleviated.
Among the therapies, Cognitive and Memory Training is just like the concept, “use your brain to stay young,” which is familiar among the public, and it can be considered a type of “mental capacity rehab” exercise. Currently the United States had conducted a large scale, clinical study (ACTIVE: The Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly), which shows that over a period of training, it can effectively improve memory, deducing ability, executing speed and other cognitive functions. It is a significant help for maintaining functional daily living abilities, and the effect can last up to 5 years. It has been thought to have the effect in preventing mental capacity decrease.
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“The Memory Billionaire,” is a Cognitive and Memory Training Assistance App for non-medication treatment. Through simple functions, in the form games, it replaces dull trainings and is also effective in strengthening brain memory and improving cognitive deficiencies, which delays the progression of dementia.
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