Dementia

An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.

Also Known As:

Dementias; Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration; Semantic Dementia; Dementia, Familial; Degeneration, Frontotemporal Lobar; Dementia, Semantic; Amentia; Familial Dementia; Amentias; Degenerations, Frontotemporal Lobar; Dementias, Familial; Dementias, Semantic; Dementias, Senile Paranoid; Familial Dementias; Frontotemporal Lobar Degenerations; Lobar Degeneration, Frontotemporal; Lobar Degenerations, Frontotemporal; Paranoid Dementia, Senile; Paranoid Dementias, Senile; Semantic Dementias; Senile Paranoid Dementias; Senile Paranoid Dementia

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Nervous System Diseases: 3453

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Central Nervous System Diseases: 937

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Brain Diseases: 1129

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Dementia: 10758

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Mental Disorders: 1715

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Cognitive Disorders Amnestic Dementia Delirium: 45

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Dementia: 10758

Authors	Calvin Hirsch (Affiliation: University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, California, USA.)
Journal	Evidence-based medicine (Evid Based Med) Vol. 12 Issue 2 Pg. 51 (Apr 2007) ISSN: 1473-6810 England
PMID	17400643 (Publication Type: Comment, Journal Article)

Community based occupational therapy improved daily functioning in older patients with dementia.