{"id":3673,"date":"2024-12-31T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mickeylieberman.com\/alzheimers\/?p=3673"},"modified":"2025-02-24T09:29:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T14:29:02","slug":"what-is-alzheimers-and-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mickeylieberman.com\/alzheimers\/what-is-alzheimers-and-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Alzheimer’s and Dementia?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alzheimer’s and Dementia<\/span><\/p>\n

Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disorder that causes brain cells to waste away (degenerate) and die.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia \u2014 a continuous decline in thinking, behavioral, and social skills that disrupts a person’s ability to function independently.<\/span><\/p>\n

The early signs of the disease may be forgetting recent events or conversations. As the disease progresses, a person with Alzheimer’s disease will develop severe memory impairment and lose the ability to carry out everyday tasks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Current Alzheimer’s disease medications may temporarily improve symptoms or slow the rate of decline.<\/span><\/p>\n

These treatments can sometimes help people with Alzheimer’s disease maximize function and maintain independence for a time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dementia is a broad category of brain disease that includes any disease that causes a severe loss of cognitive ability (the ability to think and reason clearly) that affects a person’s daily functioning.<\/span><\/p>\n

It must also be a worsening of functioning compared to how the person was previously.<\/span><\/p>\n

The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other common forms of dementia include:<\/span><\/p>\n