Dementia : Complications

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Complications could include:
Complications depend on the cause of the dementia, but may include the following: Abuse by an overstressed caregiver; Increased infections anywhere in the body; Loss of ability to function or care for self; Loss of ability to interact; Reduced lif...
Source:ADAM
Date:February 13, 2008
Dementia is not a specific disorder or disease. It is a syndrome (group of symptoms) associated with a progressive loss of memory and other intellectual functions that is serious enough to interfere with the tasks of daily life. Dementia can occur...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part I
Dementia is not a specific disorder or disease. It is a syndrome (group of symptoms) associated with a progressive loss of memory and other intellectual functions that is serious enough to interfere with the tasks of daily life. Dementia can occur...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part II
Dementia is a loss of mental ability severe enough to interfere with normal activities of daily living, lasting more than six months, not present since birth, and not associated with a loss or alteration of consciousness.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Dementia is not a specific disorder or disease. It is a syndrome (group of symptoms) associated with a progressive loss of memory and other intellectual functions that is serious enough to interfere with performing the tasks of daily life. Dementi...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
The term dementia refers to symptoms, including changes in memory, personality, and behavior, that result from a change in the functioning of the brain. These declining changes are severe enough to impair the ability of a person to perform a funct...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
Dementia is a condition characterized by a progressive, irreversible decline in mental ability, accompanied by changes in behavior and personality. There is commonly a loss of memory and skills that are required to carry out activities of daily li...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
The physical signs of child abuse used to be called battered child syndrome. This syndrome referred to multiple fractures in different states of healing. The fractures occurred at different times in children too young to have received the fractures as a result of an accident. The definition of child abuse has since expanded significantly. Physical child abuse or non-accidental child trauma refers not only to multiple fractures at different ages, but it also includes numerous other signs of injury. See also: Child sexual abuse; Child psychological abuse and neglect.
Source:ADAM
Date:October 11, 2007
The skills needed to use language (spoken, written, signed, or otherwise communicated) to interact with others, and problems related to the development of these skills. Experts in child development generally agree that all babies develop skills for spoken and written language according to a specific developmental schedule, regardless of the language being learned.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Communication skills are the skills needed to use language (spoken, written, signed, or otherwise communicated) to interact with others, and communication disorders are problems related to the development of these skills. Language employs symbols- words, gestures, or spoken sounds- to represent objects and ideas.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
The term life expectancy is used to describe the average life span of an individual. Life expectancy can vary considerably in different areas of the world.
Source:Gale Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z
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