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Your Crazy Old Aunt – Why People Get Dementia

Dementia is common amongst the elderly and arrives like a hurricane in slow motion. The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer’s Disease, second is Lewy Body Disease. Regardless of what you call it, dementia is when someone loses touch with reality. It usually starts with small things, such as someone forgetting a loved one’s name, or the street number of where they have lived for the last 20 years. Sometimes it progresses into something more puzzling such as a person insisting that there husband or wife will be home soon when in fact they have passed away. Medical science has yet to determine what causes dementia. They have autopsied people who died of these diseases and never found the cause, but rather the result of dementia.

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