Dementia Overview (cont.)

Synonyms and Keywords

activities of daily living, ADLs, aging, Alzheimer disease, Alzheimer's disease, assisted living, atherosclerosis, benign senescent forgetfulness, Binswanger disease, brain damage, caregiver, caregiving, cerebral atrophy, cognition, cognitive deficits, cognitive functions, elderly, forgetful, frontotemporal dementia, hardening of the arteries, head injury, Huntington disease, infarction, institution, institutionalization, institutionalize, Lewy body dementia, memory loss, mental status evaluation, multi-infarct dementia, neuropsychologic testing, nursing home, organic brain syndrome, Parkinson disease, Parkinson's disease, Pick disease, Pick's disease, senile, senility, seniors, stroke, traumatic brain injury, vascular dementia, dementia overview, dementia due to HIV infection, dementia in head injury, dementia medications, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, normal pressure hydrocephalus, brain tumors, alcoholism, early dementia, intermediate dementia, severe dementia

Authors and Editors

Author: Kathryn L Hale, MS, PA-C, Medical Writer, eMedicine.com, Inc.

Coauthor(s): Julia Frank, MD, Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University School of Medicine.

Editors: Nestor Galvez-Jimenez, MD, Program Director of Movement Disorders, Director of Neurology Residency Training Program, Department of Neurology, Division of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Florida; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Helmi L Lutsep, MD, Associate Director, Oregon Stroke Center; Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Oregon Health and Science University.

Last Editorial Review: 10/27/2005