Reframe Assumptions: Myths and Facts about Dementia

Volume 7 Issue 9 September, 2017

❌ Dementia is a normal part of ageing.

✅ It is a disease and not a normal part of ageing

❌ There is nothing which you can do if you have it.

✅ There is no cure however there is treatment to decrease the progression.

❌ If someone in family has dementia, you will have it too.

✅ There is a chance but not absolute.

❌ Dementia is just a memory loss.

✅ It involves many other aspects like emotion, behavior, motor problems among others.

❌ Alzheimer’s disease is same as dementia.

✅ AD is the most common type of dementia, but there are other types of dementia with different manifestations.

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