Dementia - Reflexions



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Dementia

Dementia is an acquired reduction in cognitive capacities which is sufficiently large to affect people significantly and lead to a loss of autonomy. Areas which are particularly affected include memory, attention spans, language and problem solving.

In the last stages of dementia, people affected can become very disorientated in terms of time (not knowing the day, week, month or year), place (not knowing where they are) and people (not knowing who they are).