Dementia can strike Us at age 40 years!

What Is Dementia?

Don't be advised with Senile!

So the sound of the Alzheimer's Foundation Indonesia campaign, a nonprofit institution that enterprising men socialized about dementia.

Indonesia, even the world community, the considers senile is a natural condition in humans. In fact, he is one of the characteristics of the actual dementia diseases do not overwrite all of the people in the age of twilight.

Dementia is defined as the condition of the damage function brain associated with language, memory, perception, and thought process so influential significantly to a person's ability to do daily activities.

People with dementia will lose short-term memory capability, so that more considering the long-term memory or memories of his past. No wonder people with dementia often re-telling the story of a young man but forgot the new he did 10 minutes ago.

In the terminal, sufferers of dementia are dependent entirely on the help of others to perform everyday activities, such as eating, urinating or showering.

Anyone who has suffered from dementia risk?

The risk of experiencing dementia begins at the age of 65 years and over, although there are also happening at a younger age as 40 years. Over the age of 85 years, the risk of developing dementia increased to 8%.

Currently, more than 47 million people worldwide suffer from dementia, estimated 12 more years, i.e. the year 2030, as many as 82 million people will be living with dementia.

Wow!

Dementia is often not detected and misunderstood, but strongly influenced lives up to cause the disability of individuals, families, and communities.

See the lack of knowledge and treatment of dementia worldwide, the WHO declared a Global Action Plan on The Public Health Response to a Terminal 2017-2025. Targeted at 2025, all countries in the world already has a program functioning dementia handling campaigns actively to help sufferers of dementia in each country. Following the WHO Global Action Plan infographics related dementia:

Source : www.who.int

Recognize the symptoms of dementia

The most common cause of dementia is Alzheimer's.

This disease causes brain damage are slowly due to the death of the cells due to the change of chemical substances and structures in it. Although it is a treatment to slow the brain damage is already found, until today there is no drug that can stop the rate of brain damage.

The following symptoms of Alzheimer's dementia that can be observed in everyday life of sufferers:

1. Disturbance of memory

Senile dementia is a term often used to describe the lay community memory disorders in the elderly.

It turns out that is not normal senility in the elderly if already logged in to the level that interferes with daily activities, both on sufferers or people in the vicinity. They could repeat the question or the same statement many times in a day.

On a stage that has already advanced, the sufferer can no longer recognize family members and lost a lot of memories together.

2. Disorientation or unable to recognize directions

elderly dementia often incorrectly identify the environment and location. At the level of the already severe dementia sufferers, difficulty recognizing letters and numbers.

3. It is difficult to plan and make decisions

The cognitive function of Alzheimer's dementia sufferers was also disturbed was in planning activities and making decisions.

4. Difficult to perform everyday activities

A dementia sufferer in his youth was a reliable accountant, no longer able to organize the money that he held. A grandfather sufferers of dementia usual drive myself, slowly the trouble to drive again.

In more severe brain damage, dementia sufferers difficulty holding waste water, sleep at night, dress, or eat alone. They will need the help of another person to the usual things he did.

5. Communication Disorders

Sufferers of dementia are often trouble finding words in the middle of the talks.

Search for a word that describes the intent of them being its own challenges to often the conversation stalled, though not yet finished.

6. Prefer solitude

Activities are clustered into no longer attractive to sufferers of dementia. Activity or their usual hobbies items do not get them excited again. Alone in the room, while looking out the window is often done by sufferers of dementia.

However, he does not want to if left alone in the House.

7. personality Changes

Often angry and suspicious of excessive became the most emotional symptoms suck for sufferers, a nurse or caregiver, as well as the surrounding environment.

elderly dementia easy to accuse others of stealing and want to hurt him. They are also easily disappointed, disheartened, and relies excessively on family members.

A variety of symptoms is often a cause of frustration for sufferers of dementia and its environment.

A caregiver who did not understand the various symptoms of dementia can be more frustrating than the sufferers themselves. Therefore, the program socialization and facilitation for the caregiver is needed to maintain their quality of life.

Join a community of fellow caregiver in order to gain insight and support in caring for sufferers of dementia is an option to consider.

What can we do to prevent dementia?

The human brain will be more powerful if constantly honed with a variety of stimulus. In people aged, the brain will still be primed if treated since a young age so that the risk of dementia can be reduced.

Experts believe that certain nutrients roles keep the vitality of the brain. Clinically proven nutrients may help treat brain function include:

Kolin, in eggs, poultry, vegetables, fish, seafood, meat, and fruit

Folate, in green vegetables such as spinach, asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, mustard greens, turnip greens, and lettuce; as well as fruits such as avocados, fruit bits, orange juice, tomato juice, papaya, banana, melon, and orange

Vitamin B12, which is found in tuna, crab, sardines, beef, salmon, and others.

Vitamin C, which many contained in citrus, paprika, kiwi, berries, pineapple, melon, and others

In addition to the intake of nutrients, other ways to treat the brain is with a low-fat diet and reducing the consumption of carbohydrates.

Lastly, like any muscle, the brain needs exercise to be stronger. Well, to avoid dementia, do exercise the brain, such as:

read

wrote

play puzzle

Gymnastics brain (brain gym)

Paint

meditation, and others.

Physical activities such as exercise and walk are also very beneficial to keep the brain remains primed until dusk.

No less important, always keep the condition of inhabitants remain calm and happy is the best way to avoid any physical ailments.