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Dementia
Changes and Challenges
Contents
Why This Booklet? ..................................................................................................... 1
About Dementia. ....................................................................................................... 1
Diagnosis ............................................................................................................... 2
Who Can Get Dementia? ....................................................................................... 3
Can You Prevent Dementia? ................................................................................. 3
Cures? .................................................................................................................... 3
The Lived Experience. ................................................................................................ 4
Dementia as A Disability. ........................................................................................... 4
Dementia and Human Rights. ............................................................................... 5
The Brain and Commonly Recognised Symptoms. .................................................... 6
Common Symptoms and Changes ............................................................................ 9
Frontal Lobe. ......................................................................................................... 9
Temporal Lobe. ................................................................................................... 10
Parietal Lobe. ....................................................................................................... 10
Occipital Lobe. ..................................................................................................... 11
Cerebellum. ......................................................................................................... 11
Brain Stem. .......................................................................................................... 11
How Our Senses Might Be Affected. ....................................................................... 12
Coming to Our Senses. ............................................................................................ 15
Sight: ................................................................................................................ 16
Taste: ............................................................................................................... 16
Touch: .............................................................................................................. 16
Pressure: .......................................................................................................... 16
Itch: .................................................................................................................. 17
Thermoception: ............................................................................................... 17
