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On Residencia Lourdes we focused our efforts in the attention of people of the
third age who suffer of Alzheimer and/or Senile Dementia, next we make a brief
description of these evils:
What is the Disease of Alzheimer?
The disease of Alzheimer produces a diminution of the intellectual functions
the sufficiently serious thing like interfering with the capacity to make activities
of the daily life. It is commonest of the dementias. Scientifically, it is defined
as so. The disease of Alzheimer is progressive, degenerative of the brain and
causes conduct and thought, memory deterioration. The person who suffers it
can experience or feel confusion, disorientation in time and space, changes
in the personality and of conduct, alterations in the judgment, difficulty to
find words; to finalize ideas or thoughts and to follow instructions. Finally
it incapacitates to who suffers it to take care of of itself.
What is the SENILE DEMENTIA?
We defined the senile dementia like an organic mental syndrome that is characterized
by a deterioration of the memory short and long term, associated to upheavals
of the abstract thought, superior judgment, cortical functions and modifications
of the personality. All these alterations are the sufficiently serious thing
like interfering significantly in the activities of relation, labor or social.
The age of beginning of the senile dementia is after the 65 years, although
another dementia of presenile beginning exists.
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