Lewy Body Dementia Health Feed

With age, just like other body functions, the mind too begins to slow down (normal aging). This could lead to problems in remembering, recall, reasoning, and thinking. But in dementia, there is a progressive worsening which affects day-to-day activities. So, with dementia, the person faces problems which are a combination of above-mentioned activities. Dementia is a syndrome associated with many diseases and is not a disease on its own.

Alzheimer s disease is the main cause of dementia,...more

Dear Wasim,
Temporo Frontal dementia is not a fatal disorder. They can live just like any other normal aging persons. Death occurs because of age, medical conditions like diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, smoking, intercurrent infections, falls and accidents.
No specific treatment to reverse the process of dementia. But care can be given for few symptoms, caretakers health can be taken care, help like day care, dementia old age homes, home nursing aid, etc can be arranged.

Diagnosing dementia can be more difficult than you can imagine. Medically, the patient needs to have at least two areas of mental functionality impaired to an extent where it interferes with their everyday life. However, diagnosis is just the beginning as treating dementia can be even more challenging. Here is a look at some of the treatment options available for dementia patients.

Treatment for Dementia
There is often no cure for most forms of dementia. Treatment relies on the mana...more

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Dear Rajiv,
It is in our culture, to keep the elderly persons at home and care for them till the end. This person needs nursing care also which your family members alone can not do. So, it is better to keep her at home and keep a part time or full time nursing assistant, hired from some voluntary agency. If your house is, not that convenient or if you have other commitments, you have to shift her to a nursing home after counselling all relevant relatives.

SEEK HELP FROM NEAREST PATANJALI CHIKITSALAYA AS THEIR MEDICINES WILL HAVE NO SIDE-EFFECTS.

IF YOU COULD HELP HER WITH ANULOM-VILOM PRANAYAM , HELPING HER BREATHE, WHILE YOU OPEN AND CLOSE HER NOSTRILS, SHE CAN IMPROVE.

Dementia is a general classification of a brain disease that causes a long haul and frequently steady abatement in the capacity to think and recall that is sufficiently incredible to influence a man's everyday functioning. Other normal manifestations incorporate passionate issues, issues with dialect, and a lessening in motivation. An individual's awareness is not influenced. The most common example of dementia is the Alzheimer's disease.

Physiotherapy for Dementia:
A patient with ...more

Dear Gandhi Babu. Thanks for the question. Dementia is more than a psychological disorder. Dementia is A group of thinking and social symptoms that interferes with daily functioning. This is not a specific disease, dementia is a group of conditions characterised by impairment of at least two brain functions, such as memory loss and judgement. Symptoms include forgetfulness, limited social skills and thinking abilities so impaired that it interferes with daily functioning. Medication and therapie...more

Dear Ashok,
i can understand the problem of living with a mother who is dementing. Dementia causes sleep problems. A person with dementia may sleep during the day and not at night. But giving sleeping tablets cause problems of falls. Any fall can cause fracture of hip joint at postmenopausal age. So it is better to avoid sedatives.
WHO is concerned about the care takers burn out when they continuously live with your mother. So the care taker, may be you or your wife or sister or a paid ...more