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I heard from 2 doctors that alzheimer's and dementia are the same. what do you say?
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Alzheimers is 1 kind: Alzheimers is one kind of dementia, but there are other kinds as well, and those can be caused by disease, injury, metabolic conditions, and other factors.
Answered 5/13/2016
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Not true: Dementia is a general term describing progressive cognitive loss due to many different diseases, Alzheimer's is the most common cause of dementia, but not the only one. Different dementias are treated differently.
Answered 5/23/2015
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