Dementia

I have written about Alzheimer's disease in the past, but it is important for everyone to know that not all dementia, and certainly not all memory loss, is Alzheimer's disease.

There is a brief article on the Psychiatric Resource Forum website that will point you toward some extra resources.

Our biggest interest is always in ensuring that someone who seems to be developing a dementing illness doesn't actually have one of the large number of remediable causes of cognitive decline, such as depression, an underactive thyroid, vitamin B12 or folate deficiency, or an unusual condition called normal pressure hydrocephalus.