Weakening of memory or dementia symptoms commonly known as a person often feels quickly forget the little things. Like forgetting to keep the work schedule and meetings, can not remember someone’s name, or even forget to put the goods. The weakening of a person’s memory or the public to call with dementia is a common disease suffered by the elderly.

But the rate of dementia among people with the other one is different but this is still likely to be delayed. Due to a weakened ability to remember and think, then the impact on the incidence of disturbance of daily activities. The most obvious form of interference is a degradation of social behavior.

As we get older, your brain will also experience the process of aging and decline linearly on several aspects of cognition. These include the ability of the cognitive aspects of memory, attention, language, emotion, recognition space, and executive function (planning, organizing, and implementation).
Setback due to these aspects, behavior that is often seen is the state of forgetful, confused or dazed (absent-minded), it is difficult to solve the problem, or is likely to shift attention. Because, naturally, on the elderly will experience changes in anatomical brain cells. Brain memory center section (in the temple) and the central executive (in the foreground) are parts of the most experienced decline in the number of cells. In a transition phase in the process of mild dementia starts from phase to phase toward more severe.
It should be noted, mild cognitive disorders (mild cognitive impairment) is a reminder that the phenomenon of high-risk suffering from disabling senility or dementia.

In these mild cognitive disorder caused memory impairment was not influenced by age and education level, especially on short-term memory (recent memory).

Senility symptoms on elderly

Daily activities, and other cognitive functions in general are still normal and on track. While in patients with dementia, impaired intellectual and cognitive abilities occur in a progressive disorder resulting in social performance. In addition, disruption of daily life activities are more complex such as working, managing finances, cooking, making phone calls, or travel on their own. So that in general people with dementia can not perform activities independently and needs of others.

According to the American Academy of Neurology, an estimated incidence of mild cognitive disorders reaches 9.9 per cent per 1000 population each year. Of that amount about 8.3 percent each year will become senile. These opportunities will be greater if there are heart problems, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, and low education background.

Not cheap to do the treatment in patients with dementia, according to World Health Organization in countries with low income cost on average to reach USD 15 million. These cost less when compared with middle income countries who have to spend up to Rp 45 million each year for treatment in patients with dementia.

Therefore, it need an understanding for the public to reject the notion that senility is a natural thing happens when old. Dementia if not completely overcome, can lead to infection. Danger of infection can be caused by diseases that accompany it, such as pneumonia or due to food and malnutrition.

Until recently, the disease is not curable dementia. Medications and treatments are carried out aiming to reduce the signs and symptoms, and optimize the ability of that still exists. Should be done before it’s too late to prevent the occurrence of mild cognitive disorder known as senility phase transitions.

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