Dementia affect younger individuals due to their lifestyles
We spoke to a social worker from Dementia SA, whereby she told us a little more about Dementia. Dementia South Africa is a non-profit organisation that assist families and people that has dementia and that has limited access to private health care, dementia is caused by Alzheimer, memory loss, and language problems. The services that Dementia SA offers are to give education, knowledge and informative talk about what Dementia is, so that family members know the changes and give support to their loved ones that struggles with dementia.
They also give a workshop called the Introduction to understanding dementia and they also have resources to understand dementia. Dementia is not treatable, there is no cure and people need to understand that and need to know what to do when the person living with dementia will not know how to express themselves and will not know how to do the most simple of tasks such as cooking, cleaning, etc. Sometimes family members will think family members may be acting out and there will be better and worse moments in the beginning of dementia. The difference between dementia, there are more than 100 types of dementia, Alzheimer is a type of dementia that is most common and it effects about 50 or 60 people living with dementia.
Dementia is more common in elderly people ages from 60 and above, but do affect younger people, 59 and below that lives with dementia, younger persons lifestyle abuse alcohol, abuse of drugs that is when young people could get dementia. With HIV/AIDS some people with this disease could also get dementia. The signs memory loss, difficulty with certain task, stress as well and this people are vulnerable and needs to be taken care of. Dementia SA welcomes all patients and accept them when they come to the office, so feel free to go to Dementia SA if you have these symptoms.
For further information: www.dementiasa.org 021 421 0077
They also give a workshop called the Introduction to understanding dementia and they also have resources to understand dementia. Dementia is not treatable, there is no cure and people need to understand that and need to know what to do when the person living with dementia will not know how to express themselves and will not know how to do the most simple of tasks such as cooking, cleaning, etc. Sometimes family members will think family members may be acting out and there will be better and worse moments in the beginning of dementia. The difference between dementia, there are more than 100 types of dementia, Alzheimer is a type of dementia that is most common and it effects about 50 or 60 people living with dementia.
Dementia is more common in elderly people ages from 60 and above, but do affect younger people, 59 and below that lives with dementia, younger persons lifestyle abuse alcohol, abuse of drugs that is when young people could get dementia. With HIV/AIDS some people with this disease could also get dementia. The signs memory loss, difficulty with certain task, stress as well and this people are vulnerable and needs to be taken care of. Dementia SA welcomes all patients and accept them when they come to the office, so feel free to go to Dementia SA if you have these symptoms.
For further information: www.dementiasa.org 021 421 0077
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