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Alzheimer's Disease Society. Alzheimer's Society is a United Kingdom care and research charity for people with dementia and their carers. It operates in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, [2] [3] while its sister charities Alzheimer Scotland [4] and Alzheimer Society of Ireland cover Scotland and the Republic of Ireland respectively. [5] [6]
2.4 million (2016) [9] Dementia is a syndrome associated with many neurodegenerative diseases, characterized by a general decline in cognitive abilities that impacts a person's ability to perform everyday activities. This typically involves problems with memory, thinking, behavior, and motor control. [10]
Alzheimer's disease ( AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens, [2] and is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. [2] [15] The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events. [1] As the disease advances, symptoms can include problems with language, disorientation ...
Tangential speech. Tangential speech or tangentiality is a communication disorder in which the train of thought of the speaker wanders and shows a lack of focus, never returning to the initial topic of the conversation. [1] It tends to occur in situations where a person is experiencing high anxiety, as a manifestation of the psychosis known as ...
Simon Reynolds The albums, which Kirby describes as exploring dementia's "advancement and totality", present poetic track titles and descriptions for each stage, which represent a person with dementia and their feelings. Ideas of deterioration, melancholy, confusion, and abstractness are present throughout, and according to writer Alexandra Weiss, Kirby's work "raises significant questions ...
Pseudodementia (otherwise known as depression-related cognitive dysfunction or depressive cognitive disorder) is a condition where mental cognition can be temporarily decreased. The term pseudodementia is applied to the range of functional psychiatric conditions such as depression, schizophrenia and other psychosis, mania, dissociative disorder ...
Frontotemporal dementia is an early onset disorder that mostly occurs between the ages of 45 and 65, [13] but can begin earlier, and in 20–25% of cases onset is later. [11] [14] Men and women appear to be equally affected. [15] It is the most common early presenting dementia. [16]
Elderspeak is a specialized speech style used by younger adults with older adults, characterized by simpler vocabulary and sentence structure, filler words, content words, overly-endearing terms, closed-ended questions, using the collective "we", repetition, and speaking more slowly. [1] [2] [3] Elderspeak stems from the stereotype that older ...