Dementia (Diseases and Disorders)
By Bonnie Juettner


* Publisher
: Lucent Books
* Number Of Pages: 96
* Publication Date: 2009-03-06
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1420500422
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781420500424


From Introduction:
Dementia has been known since ancient times. Medical texts
from the Roman Empire mention dementia. The Roman philosopher
and politician Cicero wrote about it in the second century
B.C., referring to it as “senilis stultitia.” Even then, there
was disagreement about whether it was an illness or a normal
part of growing old. The word dementia, which comes from the
Latin for “without mind,” came into common use in the 1700s,
and is mentioned in the 1808 code of law written by Napoleon
Bonaparte.
Today, dementia in its various forms is diagnosed in almost
370,000 people in the United States each year. While older people
make up the majority of those affected, people of any age
can have it in one form or another. According to the Alzheimer’s
Association, about 5 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s
disease alone. It ranks seventh among the leading causes of
death in the United States. Many more people are affected by
non-Alzheimer’s dementias such as vascular dementia, caused
by changes in the brain’s blood supply, and frontotemporal
dementia, which affects only certain parts of the brain. Still
others have dementia as a result of brain infections or injuries.
The U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment estimates
that as many as 6.8 million Americans are affected with some
form of dementia, 1.8 million of them severely.

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