Your doctor should have protocols to prevent both of these.
http://www.medicaldaily.com/alzheimers-vs-dementia-how-they-differ-and-what-do-393669
Dementia and Alzheimer's disease may share many of the same symptoms,
but the two are not different names for the same condition. Here’s what
you need to know about both in order for you to avoid this common
mistake.
Dementia is a syndrome, or a group of symptoms that
consistently occur together. It is not a specific disease. The term
“dementia” is used to describe a set of symptoms that can include memory
loss, difficulty thinking, problem solving, or issues with language.
Dementia is caused by damage to the brain cells, and because Alzheimer’s
is a disease that destroys the brain, it is one of the most common
causes of dementia.
As many as 50 to 70 percent of all dementia cases are caused by Alzheimer’s, Alzheimers.net
reported. However, other conditions can also cause dementia, such as
Parkinson’s Disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. In addition, dementia
is often incorrectly referred to as "senility" or "senile dementia,"
which reflects the formerly widespread but incorrect belief that serious
mental decline is a normal part of aging.
According to The Alzheimer’s Association,
the symptoms of dementia vary greatly and can include factors such as
memory troubles, communication and language problems, loss of the
ability to focus and pay attention, difficulties with reasoning and
judgement, and trouble with visual perception. However, different types
of dementia are associated with different types of brain damage.
In
addition, an estimated 10 percent of people with dementia have more
than one type at the same time, with the most common combination
being Alzheimer's disease with vascular dementia, The Alzheimer’s Society reported.
According to the Alzheimer’s Association,
Alzheimer’s Disease is a specific type of dementia caused when high
levels of certain proteins inside and outside brain cells make it hard
for brain cells to stay healthy and to communicate with each other. This
leads to the loss of connections between nerve cells, and eventually to
the death of nerve cells and loss of brain tissue.
Here's the major difference
between Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia — when an individual is
diagnosed with dementia, they are diagnosed based on their symptoms
without actually knowing what's behind the symptoms. In Alzheimer’s
disease, the exact cause of the symptoms is understood. In addition,
Alzheimer's disease is not reversible, whereas some types of dementia,
such as those caused by nutritional problems or a drug interaction, can
be reversed.
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Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.
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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.
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