Signs of dementia manifest themselves depending on the degree and severity of the disease. The memory suffers, the senses of duty, politeness, delicacy, correctness, shame, but terrible color dismissed - this is a symptom of dementia. We are talking about it.
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The decomposition of mental functions occurs as a result of brain damage, which happens more often in old age and is called seenile dementia. Old men, shitting legs, small chambers aimlessly roaming around the house, scattering on the way all the trifle from pockets, forgetting what they wanted to do, why came to the kitchen or to the toilet, again and again return to the same place, poorly rendering where they And who they are.
Very often, in connection with this, relatives are annoyed following: «senility» as a formula forgetfulness, inaccurability, untidiness, but, unfortunately, this is a symptom of dementia, severe irreversible process.
Among the signs of dementia is very characteristic of both short-term and long-term memory violation, the disappearance of abstract thinking. Very often, the old men become tearful, offended and sentimental. At the beginning of the disease, nerity-like disorders are noted, weakness, lethargy, fatigue, irritability, headaches, sleep disorders, diffraction, and, as a result of such a state appear — Unecessary, which is so annoying relatives and loved ones.
Amnesia leads to orientation violations in time and in place, patients are not always able to retreat to the toilet, which is inevitably manifested by untidiness. These are the symptoms of dementia, which manifest itself a noticeable intellectual regression and social disadaptation. Signs of the severe stage of dementia are noted by a rough disintegration of the person, foul language, full disorder of will and asocial behavior.
Difference of Dementia from Oligophrenia
Sometimes it happens very difficult to identify the difference of signs of dementia from oligophrenia. Persistent intelligent insufficiency may occur after transferred infections and injuries, it is «Organic dementia». In this case, the first place should be noted the growing decay of the psyche. Despite the emerging gaps, the active and passive dictionary of patients with dementia is richer, the awareness of verbal instructions is not difficult, communication with them. In the emotional sphere, with late dementia, the feelings of patients are diverse and practically adequate to the situation, they can empathize, their interests are wider comprehensive.
During the analysis, the differences in dementia from oligophrenia should be noted that the mental state has a total nature of the defeat, when not only logical thinking is suffering, but also all mental activities. With organic dementia, in contrast to oligophrenic, there is a decay of more or less formed intelligent functions.
Characteristic signs of acquired dementia:
- lack of targeted mental activity;
- clearly pronounced changes in attention and memory;
- bright emotional disorders;
- manifestation of increased or perverted instincts.
Symptoms of oligophrenia appear more often in infancy, completely destroy the still incomparated intelligence due to the presence of hereditary disease, as well as after injury or infection.
Patients with dementia — Total trouble in the house
The disease is characterized by 3 degrees of gravity, which makes the necessary care and help:
- With a lightweight decreases the ability to memorize, there is an increase in the number of professional errors, light cognitive disorders. Complex tasks, some financial transactions and long-distance trips are not under power, control and attention of others.
- Patients with a medium dementia cannot live separately, they need extraneous assistance. Patients are not able to recall significant, essential facts and outline chronological events from personal life, although still alive ideas about the present and past.
- Old men with a severe degree need constant care and supervision to avoid accidents. Many life ideas erased and lost completely. Help and care are needed in the most elementary types of self-service, since all life skills and techniques are dramatically violated, up to independent movement. The mental state of patients is quite often dried by the development of hallucinations, nonsense, affective disorders.
