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Causes Of Dementia
Dementia & Alzheimer’s
Dementia is a mental disorder found commonly in people after the age of 65 years. People suffering with dementia might forget things, may get mood swings and also there might be adverse personality changes in that person.
1) Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of Dementia. Alzheimer’s disease accounts for almost 60% of all cases of Dementia in people. Alzheimer’s disease slowly destroys the brain cells and nerves severely disrupting them from sending messages from the brain to the other parts of the body. Some parts of the brain begin to shrink as gaps begin to develop in the hippocampus and the temporal lobe.
Famous People With Dementia
Dementia & Alzheimer’s
One cause of Dementia is Alzheimer’s disease. This disease has been known to attack elderly people and cause them to forget things about themselves. Alzheimer’s disease does not pick on whom to inflict. If it is bound to happen, it will happen. Even famous people can have Alzheimer’s. Here are some known personalities who had this disease and short stories about how they went on with their life having Alzheimer’s:
President Ronald Reagan
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The late President Reagan was one of those people who suffered from this fatal memory loss. Though the symptoms were realized years after his term had ended, he might had some hints of waning mental abilities when he was still in the White House. He once joked to his doctor on one of his regular checkups, “I have three things that I want to tell you today. The first is that I seem to be having a little problem with my memory. I cannot remember the other two.” People with Alzheimer’s disease seem to know that something is not right even during the early stages.
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