Clinically, dementia consists of three levels, namely amnesia (forgetting), confuse (chaotic), and dementia (senile), and third-stage patients will experience failure in the general language and does not understand words themselves or others.

On-stage dementia patients were also experiencing lack of ability in speaking, imitative speech of others, and impaired motor skills in writing, buttoning clothes, tying shoe laces, as well as disturbed defecation and urination.

The first-stage patients (amnesia) is most commonly experienced emotional changes such as lazy, less passionate, indifferent, irritable, depressed, anxious depressed.

In stage two (confuse), patients generally experience memory loss, lack of initiative, the language repeatedly, do not know of family members, and the disorientation of the room.

This type of dementia, including Alzheimer’s extremely difficult to cure than the dementia caused by hypertension, hydrocephalus (enlargement of the brain), tumors / brain inflammation, and drugs addiction.

Signs of senility to an alarm sign, as is often forgotten, had difficulty carrying out routine work, difficulty speaking, disorientation experienced time and place, either put the goods, it is difficult to take the right decision, mood and behavior changes, it is difficult to think abstractly, personality changes, and loss of initiative.

Dementia treatment can be done by non-pharmacological and pharmacological.

Non-pharmacological therapy can be a daily activity program structuring the patient, such as brain training, do activities based on skills, nutrition, balanced diet, adequate luminous room, reminiscent of a time and place, as well as providing a quiet environment.

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