Demensia disease

Demensia condition is undoing the progressive intellectual ability after reaching the highest growth & development (age 15 years) because of organic brain disturbance, followed by collapse behavior and personality, in the form of interference in manifest cognitive functions such as memory, orientation, sense of heart and the formation of conceptual thought. Usually this condition does not reversibel, rather progressive. Diagnosis carried out with clinical examination, examination laboratorlum and view (imaging), are intended to explore the causes of which can be treated. Treatment is usually only suportif. Substance kolines feel resistor (Cholinesterase inhibitors) can improve cognitive function for a while, and make some drugs more effective than with only one kind of medicine only.

Demensia can occur at any age, but more on the elderly (lk 5% for the age range 65-74 years and 40% for those aged> 85 years). Most of them treated in the house and occupy some 50% of the bed.