What is dementia?
Dementia is a loss of mental function in two or more areas such as language, memory, visual and spatial abilities, or judgment severe enough to interfere with daily life. Dementia itself is not a disease, but a broader set of symptoms that accompanies certain diseases or physical conditions.
Well known diseases that cause dementia include Alzheimer’s disease, multi infarct dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, Pick’s disease, AIDS, alcohol and drug abuse, and Lewy body dementia. Alzheimer’s accounts for approximately 60% of people with dementia, vascular dementia accounts for approximately 30%, and all the rest account for approximately 10%.
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Read the Preface to An Alzheimer’s Surprise Party: Unveiling the Mystery, Inner Experience, and Gifts of Dementia
by DR. ROSEMARY SHINKWIN, MD, MRCPsych
Consultant Psychiatrist, Mercy University Hospital, Cork, Ireland
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“PREVENTION” ~ Please refer to Chapter Nine ~ Summary of An Alzheimer’s Surprise Party: Unveiling the Mystery, Inner Experience, and Gifts of Dementia for our prescription for helping with dementia “prevention.”
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- Alzheimer’s
- dementia
- delirium
- senile
- confusion
- forgetfulness
- stroke
- memory loss
- coma
- communication
- Arnold Mindell
- process work
- process oriented psychology
- awareness
- sentient awareness
- sentient care
- prevention
