Alzheimer as a Type of Dementia

Do you know dementia? Dementia is a general term used to define a severe decline of someone’s mental ability which will affect much of their daily life, not better but worse. As a general term, dementia not describes specific but wide range disease which symptoms are related to thinking skills like the decline of communication and language skills, unable to focus and pay attention, the decline of visual perception and reasoning also judgment thought. One thing that may describe this disease well is losing memory. It means, someone who got dementia disease may have a problem with their short term memory and forget their past experiences, including the small details like wallet placing, address, appointment, etc. In our everyday life, dementia often defines as senility which is believed as a normal part of aging that all people at their old days will face this, but this definition is incorrect because dementia is a serious mental decline, not normal one. Of course, the disease will not straight to the point in losing all of your memories, but dementia is a progressive disease that will start erasing your memory slowly and get worse day by day. It is just like, “there is an eraser in your brain that will erase all of your notes slowly”. I do not want to frighten you, but this is true, dementia is a terrifying disease you should avoid if you can, of course.

The most common type of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease. As a type of dementia disease, of course, Alzheimer is related to the decline of thinking skills, like losing memory because Alzheimer attacks your brain too. It will erase your memories too. So, be aware if you or your loved one experience difficulties in thinking and calling back your memories that may be Alzheimer, not senility. I suggest you to see a doctor immediately so that you can get diagnosed and make sure that you are not got dementia or Alzheimer, a serious mental disease that may change your life, the worse and the worse gradually. Usually doctor will diagnose the patient using memory test that will show either the patient is positively got Alzheimer or not. Early diagnosis will be better for the patient if they positively have dementia or Alzheimer. They may get maximum medical treatment that will help them overcome the disease better because there are some medicines that will ease the symptoms.

So, defining Alzheimer’s disease cannot be separated from dementia definition as Alzheimer is a type of dementia. Knowing dementia well can ease to define what Alzheimer is. After reading the brief explanation about dementia and Alzheimer as part of it, you may think to do some prevention so that you can avoid this dementia disease. Pay attention to your health, both physic and psychologist so that you can prevent the damage of your brain cells, which is the main cause of dementia besides the genetic one. If you are not careful in taking care of your brain health, your chance in getting Alzheimer or other dementia diseases may be bigger. So, be aware of your health. Stay healthy till your old days!