Interesting facts about dementia

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Interesting facts about dementia as of 2010

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• There are more than one hundred conditions that cause dementia. 

• Although dementia is far more common in the geriatric population, it may occur as a child.

• Dementia is currently the 2nd largest cause of disability burden after depression.

• Dementia reduces the ability to learn, reason, retain or recall past experience and there is also loss of patterns of thoughts, feelings and activities. 

• More than 5 million of the US population suffer from Alzheimer's disease.  

• In the coming years dementia is projected to be the largest source of burden of disease for women and the 5th largest for men.

• Dementia, though often treatable to some degree(symptoms), is usually due to causes that are progressive and incurable.

• Chronic use of substances such as alcohol or recreational drugs can also predispose the patient to cognitive changes suggestive of dementia.

• Dementia ranks as the fourth leading cause of death among the population aged 65 years and over.

• There are now an estimated twenty-four million people living with some form of dementia in the world.

• Less than ten percent of cases of dementia are due to causes that may presently be reversed with treatment. 

• Alzheimer's disease is the 7th leading cause of death in the United States. 

• Depression affects 20–30 percent of people who have dementia.

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