Dementia

All types of dementia involve decline in mental abilities involving thinking and memory, but the specific symptoms vary depending on the type of dementia. Patients may have difficulties with:

• Memory loss affecting work
• Difficulty doing daily tasks
• Problems with language
• Confusion about time/place
• Poor/decreased judgement and problems with abstract thinking
• Losing/forgetting things
• Changes in personality
• Loss of initiative
• Changes in mood behaviour