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Sure Signs You’re Getting Dementia, According to Doctors
You might think of Alzheimer’s disease as the affliction that makes you forgetful and confused, killing your spirit. But it can also kill you, period. “Dementia describes a group of symptoms affecting memory, thinking and social abilities severely enough to interfere with your daily life. It isn’t a specific disease, but several different diseases may cause dementia,” says the Mayo Clinic. That’s why discovering the cause is so important. Read on to hear what’s needed to save lives, and to ensure your health and the health of others, don’t miss these Sure Signs You’ve Already Had Coronavirus. 1 What is Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia, is the sixth leading cause of death for adults in America per the CDC and impacts more than a million people. And unlike other diseases, such as cancer and heart disease, death rates of Alzheimer’s are increasing with time. There is no cure for Alzheimer’s and the memory disease is progressive. Since it involves the part of the brain that controls your thoughts, memories, and language, it can start mild and ultimately leave a person unable to carry out daily activities. 2 What Causes Alzheimer’s “There’s a lot we don’t know about what causes Alzheimer’s disease,” admits Carolyn Fredericks, MD, a Yale Medicine neurologist who specializes in Alzheimer’s disease. What we do know, she explains, is that patients with…
