Dementia

What is Dementia?

Dementia is an illness that causes the brain cells to deteriorate rapidly than the average rate. Currently, there are no cure found for this abnormal aging process. People suffering from dementia will gradually lose their cognitive abilities, and go through sudden personality changes. This affects adults at any point in their lives, although it is evidently more prominent in elderly people over the age of 65 years old. An estimate of 6.2 percent of people within this age group are suffering from this illness in Singapore.

Various kinds of dementia:

- Alzheimer's disease resulting from a combination of genetic and lifestyle risk factors

- Vascular dementia (multi-infarct dementia) resulting from multiple brain strokes