I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Me thinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. . . . . . .
There are only few things more frightening than the condition which was faced by King Lear in the classic tragedy by William Shakespeare. The possibility that one day you will not recognize your loved ones, gradually you will not be able to perform the most basic tasks of life, the worst of all is that you know of breakdown or corrosion of your mind but you cannot help stop it. You yell but nobody listens, unless you are completely drowned. You are lost in the space where everything seems so strange as if you are not a part of this world, or people are alien.
This is not as straightforward as normal forgetting, but this is primary step to the most horrible mental deterioration known as “Dementia”, or in lay man terms “senility”.
In the early stage, the worsening may be seen in terms of reminiscence destruction such as complexity registering the in progress events. For example, people possibly will retain information on how to talk, might also remember the past events but has complexity remembering the occasion that happened justan hour ago. With that, they also misplace their standards of organized or communal inhibitions; they may use impolite language, tell out-of-place jokes, steal, and may make sexual advances to strangers.
The condition, which was not severe in the early stages, with the passage of time may go downhill; the orientation of time, place or person becomes extremely disturbed (not knowing what day of the week, day of the month, month, or even what year it is), in place (not knowing where they are), and in person (not knowing who they are). Frequent wanderings, as the individual cannot recall the address of his home, may be observed. Individual cannot care for himself in term of hygiene or grooming; dressing becomes inappropriate to seasons, or he may confuse under wears with the garments.
This disorder may vary from person to person and can be of different types such as it can either be progressive as in the Alzheimers disease, which is a type of dementing disorder, or stable in the case of a head injury or trauma.
Although the age of the onset of this problem may vary according to the aetiology, however, it is mostly started at the age of sixty. This problem may double every five years of age, starting with 0.8 per cent at age 65 and rising up to around 30 per cent by age 90.
Dementia is one of those age concerns which are alarmingly increasing in the population round the globe. And, this is one of those most devastating neuropsychiatric conditions, which demand most means-tested care funding, both in the residential care and the nursing homes care. It does not affect the patient only, but the whole family, and mainly the primary caregiver of such a patient, is also badly affected.
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