DEMENTIA FACTS

Dementia refers to one's progressive decline in mental ability that will eventually become severe enough to interfere with daily life, such as forgetting how to get home or inability to make decisions. Over time, it will gradually impair memory, reasoning, judgement and thinking. Dementia is an over term that describes a wide range of symptoms, which are usually in a chronic and persistent nature that further indicate a more specific disease or disorder. The most common type of dementia is Alzhemer's disease but there are many other types of dementia. It is also possible to have more than one type of Dementia present, which is known as mixed dementia

Dementia is overwhelming not only for the people who have it, but also for their caregivers and families. There is a lack of awareness and understanding of dementia in most countries, resulting in stigmatization, barriers to diagnosis and care, and impacting caregivers, families and societies physically, psychologically and economically.