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Volume 7 Issue 9 September, 2017
❌ Dementia is a normal part of ageing.
✅ It is a disease and not a normal part of ageing
❌ There is nothing which you can do if you have it.
✅ There is no cure however there is treatment to decrease the progression.
❌ If someone in family has dementia, you will have it too.
✅ There is a chance but not absolute.
❌ Dementia is just a memory loss.
✅ It involves many other aspects like emotion, behavior, motor problems among others.
❌ Alzheimer’s disease is same as dementia.
✅ AD is the most common type of dementia, but there are other types of dementia with different manifestations.
MVJ Medical College & Research Hospital, Bengaluru
