The word "dementia" sounds first of all quite harmless. It probably means generally including a strengthened form of forgetfulness. They generally only in emerging and advanced age beyond the conventional age-related degradation phenomena also possible. But one is immediately confronted with dementia in the family, so get this relatively innocuous appearing diagnosis a completely different dimension. This is why numerous publications dementia call the "family disease" because it not only affected themselves, but also members massively restricts and burdens.
When a person has dementia?
Even to this question is no clear answer. A mild forgetfulness show many people after her 30th Of age. Brain researchers speak of neuronal processes, slowing brain activity. After the folk saying "You can teach an old dog new tricks" is generally known that cognitive processes are more difficult with age. Recent research however refute traditional knowledge. Even "old" brains can be trained, like a muscle can be trained.
apparently can be the exact time of occurrence of dementia does not clearly define. Doctors suspect that a disease from its first manifestations to the time that these restrictions for the environment makes abundantly clear, many Years or even decades developed. The early stages of dementia for people to show behavior of the persons concerned, the evidence is not necessarily the beginning of this process clearly. Affected are unsure withdraw increasingly less maintain social contacts. They try to play their own unsettling forget to write reminder notes to make everything much more slowly than before. Save in talks with "safe sentence constructions and repetitions of them unpleasant situations. Be negative, when situations and questions they ask. Prevention and concealment of problems indicates that phase.
The effort, the increasing orientation losses and to cover up helplessness can be a very long process. GPs, neurologists and psychiatrists give often covered and do not target at first. Very common in dementia is a very late and advanced stage diagnosis. The long time in between is often a terrible ordeal. Not only for patients, even for partners and relatives. during which time, in the person concerned, in principle, gradually-increasing deficits, they are still full at all times competent. This fact is often exploited by other people. Certainly not always targeted, simply out of ignorance. Since at this stage of development of dementia, the clinical picture of the person concerned is not yet known.
dementia sufferers often hide in the stages of dementia, sometimes very cleverly understanding their weaknesses. Will they, as it now just happens in everyday life, with the promotion, sale offers, telephone acquisitions and the like face, they tend to vote in favor of simplicity, to sign, to order. So that they avoid a confrontation out of the way they feel no longer grown in its entirety. to put an urgent seller a resounding "no" whom they can not do more often. This financial opportunities fall from view, the scope of the practices often can not accurately assessed be. It
place orders, agreements or purchases made, for the families are not or very difficult to understand. And in the early stages of dementia, the reversal of such decisions of the person concerned is extremely difficult. Finally through the dementia sufferers self-inflicted, which can be difficult to move from the self-understanding of its full capacity out to an insight into the disease process. Upfront from such practices will do much damage, it members as a major fiasco. They generally strong financial losses for the victims.
dementia and has the property to increase gradually. Developed in some cases even to AD. This creates an ever-growing helplessness of dementia sufferers in the advanced stage become necessary in a 24 - hour supervision ends. Is it in advance how shrunk by many stakeholders, through a series of bad decisions and practices, the financial cushion to seeing a minimum and are due to dementia-related behaviors and various false interpretations and reactions of friends - and relatives are very few, immediate family member - spouse or children - willing to take care of the person affected, the fiasco of dementia as a "family disease" exists.
Now, when finally made the diagnosis after years of problems, members can bring in retrospect many unintelligible responses in context. Only the result form of dementia-related behaviors can usually not or only slightly changed at a later date. cope
As members of dementia?
gives to this question from my experiences there are no simple answers. Even I have for many years, several members suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's disease or suffering. Have thus all steps of the "ups and downs" experienced a family. Me through mountains of literature "fought" to himself understand better and to help. Held various counseling services and have supported themselves for years. In the next few weeks, I would like to write on my blog about this experience in order to perhaps help other people. Are perhaps only beginning with the first observations of family members.
In a very helpful conversation told me a woman who is their own professional qualifications and for more than 15 years, people with Alzheimer's and dementia care, dementia is that each individual, as the affected person. There are no clear symptoms, even the "Dementia Test" of the physician, the budget cuts Clock or graphology observations only possible clues.
with advanced dementia may even be answered verbally assertive also still affected by all issues of a verbal test. Some stakeholders maintain for a long time the ability in certain situations (at the doctor, the case of valuations, etc.) self-confident and driven to act, even if they are not part of their daily lives. The associated with progressive dementia of insight is often misinterpreted. As a character property, or Age stubbornness "misinterpreted. Misunderstandings of all kinds often confuse members of more than concerned. And medical research is respect for dementia and Alzheimer's still very early stage.
, keeping the path in the dementia for the person himself and his fellow men a suffering in the dark. Effective drugs are not present, the disease incurable, even now. Theories about the prevention of dementia (living, healthy nutrition, mental motility, exercise, etc.) does not help more if the man is already affected. The more important seems to me to share experiences. And of course, the hope remains that from the increasing research activities and experience more optimal care in the future - can develop and treatment options.
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