Me, Mom, and Dementia

Dementia is a term that can involve many types of disabilitiesresulting in the decline of memory, the ability to think and reason,and the ability for persons to care for themselves. For dementiato be considered, the symptoms must interfere with their dailylife. These symptoms need to involve more than one categoryof brain function, such as memory, communication, judgment,or language. Different dementias have different symptoms andprogress in different ways.