What is Dementia?

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Vascular dementia is a general term describing problems with reasoning, planning, judgment, memory and other thought processes caused by brain damage from impaired blood flow to your brain. 

Mixed Dementia  a combination of several causes, such as Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and Lewy body dementia. 

Dementia with Lewy bodies often starts when you have a hard time moving your body. Within a year, you start to have thinking and memory problems that are similar to Alzheimer’s disease, along with changes in behavior. You also might see things that aren’t there, called hallucinations.  LBD is one of the most common types of dementia, after Alzheimer’s disease. It usually happens to people who are 50 or over 

Parkinson's Disease Dementia first causes movement problems. Trouble with memory happens much later in the disease. 

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurologic disorder that causes the brain to shrink (atrophy) and brain cells to die. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia — a continuous decline in thinking, behavioral and social skills that affects a person's ability to function independently.