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whats the difference between dementia and alzheimers?

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Dementia: There are many kinds and causes of dementia. Alzheimer disease is one of them.

Question 2

i want to know what is the difference between dementia and alzheimers?

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Dementia is 1 kind: Most of the time when people say dementia, they mean alzheimer's.  There are other less common forms of dementia.  There is one that can happen from small strokes called vascular dementia.  Another has memory issues, hallucinations, and parkinsonism called lewy body dementia.  There is a very unusual one called frontotemporal dementia, and there are dementias from other causes such as infection.

Question 3

what are the differences in symptoms for alzheimer's and dementia?

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Memory loss: Consider Alzheimer's disease as largest slice of dementia pie. In other words, Alzheimer's disease is a type of dementia such that both have memory loss in common. Other types of dementia like vascular dementia &amp; Lewy body also share memory loss in common. What differs is how said memory loss presents itself, whether gradual or step-wise, w/ or w/o movement disorder. Check out http://alz.org

Question 4

what is the difference between dementia and alzheimer?

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Dem. is generic term: Dementia is a generic term for a pattern of decline in cognitive and behavioral functioning over time. Alzheimer's disease is one specific type of a dementing illness - and although the progression of the illness and the specific pattern of deficits may point toward alz's dze as the diagnosis, the definitive diagnosis of alz's dze is only made at autopsy, by the examination of brain tissue.

Question 5

what's the difference between alzheimer's and dementia?

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It is one: Alzheimer s is one very prevalent type of dementia. Dementia is a syndrome, whereas Alzheimer's s is a discreet entity with its own (not necessarily entirely understood) pathogenesis, ethiology and treatment modalities.

Question 6

what is the difference alzheimer's disease  and dementia ?

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Difference: Think alzheimer's in terms of changes to brain structure. Think of dementia in terms of change of blood flow.

Question 7

what's the difference between dementia and alzheimer's disease?

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Alz =1 type dementia: The term 'dementia' describes a set of symptoms which include loss of memory, mood changes, and problems with communication and reasoning. These symptoms may occur when the brain is damaged by certain diseases. Alzheimer’s is the most common (but not the only) cause of dementia.

Question 8

what're the differences and similarities of dementia and alzheimer's?

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Alzheimer's Dementia: Alzheimer's is a type of dementia, not something that is different from it. There are other types of dementia also. In general, dementias are disorders where the person is alert but has lost function in the areas of thinking, reasoning, memory, and organizational ("executive") tasks. Alzheimer's dementia is the most common type.  Memory loss and other cognitive symptoms appear early in its course.

Question 9

what is the difference between the symptoms of alzheimer's and dementia?

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Type of dementia : Dementia is a general term which refers to decline in memory severe enough to interfere with activities of daily living and functional status. There are different types of dementia- Alzheimer's is the most common  type of dementia. Clinical symptoms of Alzheimer's get worse over time.

Question 10

please advise what is the difference between dementia and alzheimer's disease?

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Alzheimer's is: A very specific and the most common form of dementia. Dementia can be caused by several other factors, many of which can be controlled, at times even reversed.

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