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Dementia or Cognitive Impairment is a decline in and/or loss of memory, reasoning, judgment, behavior, language and other mental abilities.
Early signs and symptoms of dementia may go unrecognized, but the first sign is usually loss of short-term memory. Some of the other early dementia symptoms and signs include:
Personality changes
Mood swings
Poor judgment
Paranoia or suspiciousness
Some of the intermediate signs and symptoms of dementia include
Worsening of early dementia symptoms
Abnormal moods
Confabulation
Inability to learn new information
Some of the later signs and symptoms of dementia include
Worsening of the intermediate signs and symptoms of dementia
Inability to walk or move to place to place unassisted
Complete loss of short and long term memory
The Reisberg Global Deterioration Scale is a set of parameters to gauge the severity of dementia, from 1 to 7. For Level 3 - Mild Cognitive Decline, these are seen:
Manifestations in more than one of the following areas:
(a) patient may have gotten lost when traveling to an unfamiliar location.
(b) co-workers become aware of patient's relatively poor performance.
(c) word and name finding deficit becomes evident to intimates.
(d) patient may read a passage or a book and retain relatively little material.
(e) patient may demonstrate decreased facility remembering names upon introduction to new people.
(f) patient may have lost or misplaced an object of value.
(g) concentration deficit may be evident on clinical testing.
Objective evidence of memory deficit obtained only with an intensive live interview. Decreased performance in demanding employment and social settings. Denial begins to become manifest in patient. Mild to moderate anxiety accompanies symptoms.
Early signs and symptoms of dementia may go unrecognized, but the first sign is usually loss of short-term memory. Some of the other early dementia symptoms and signs include:
Personality changes
Mood swings
Poor judgment
Paranoia or suspiciousness
Some of the intermediate signs and symptoms of dementia include
Worsening of early dementia symptoms
Abnormal moods
Confabulation
Inability to learn new information
Some of the later signs and symptoms of dementia include
Worsening of the intermediate signs and symptoms of dementia
Inability to walk or move to place to place unassisted
Complete loss of short and long term memory
The Reisberg Global Deterioration Scale is a set of parameters to gauge the severity of dementia, from 1 to 7. For Level 3 - Mild Cognitive Decline, these are seen:
Manifestations in more than one of the following areas:
(a) patient may have gotten lost when traveling to an unfamiliar location.
(b) co-workers become aware of patient's relatively poor performance.
(c) word and name finding deficit becomes evident to intimates.
(d) patient may read a passage or a book and retain relatively little material.
(e) patient may demonstrate decreased facility remembering names upon introduction to new people.
(f) patient may have lost or misplaced an object of value.
(g) concentration deficit may be evident on clinical testing.
Objective evidence of memory deficit obtained only with an intensive live interview. Decreased performance in demanding employment and social settings. Denial begins to become manifest in patient. Mild to moderate anxiety accompanies symptoms.