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dementia:


The lost memory



Germany is home to more than one million people with dementia.
The disease can not not cure, slow the progression but

"rule - who was now just again" Always it's on Edward Zeidler, he met a friend and occur to him not go away, the name will matter as much. he breaks his head. Or that he left home his glasses laid and forever have to search until he finally finds. "At first I thought, this will keep his old age," says the former postal service inspector.

"It is quite normal that one is a bit forgetful with age. "



The fact that negotiated by more than mere forgetfulness, Zeidler only found out when he sent his cardiologist in a memory clinic. There confirmed what the doctor had suspected the same: Edward Zeidler suffering from early-stage dementia.

a fate that divides the 76-year-old with more than one million people in Germany. Most of them have Alzheimer's disease, named after the doctor Alois Alzheimer, who described the first time in 1906. Even when Edward Zeidler this diagnosis was made.

first to be short-term memory!

second most common cause of the dementia, circulatory disorders in the brain.

makes the beginning the disease usually caused by a for sustained short-term memory bemerkbar.Die Stakeholders can not remember names, dates, or more often forgotten embarrassed Dinge.Bei talks fall they suddenly no longer a certain words.
take with progressive dementia of the problems. Man finds himself in a familiar environment does not find anything, needs help with simple daily tasks, like brushing your teeth or eating at some point, one can also no longer trusted people. The risk of developing dementia increases, although with increasing age. "Still, must mean a certain forgetfulness in old age does not matter that paves dementia," says Munich psychiatrist Dr. Robert Perneczky.


First contact is the family doctor

The doctor Perneczky advised no later than when the forgetfulness leads to problems - such as when the person's medication does not work properly occupied, constantly runs or manage his finances can not . 'The first contact is usually the family doctor.

case of suspected dementia, he can transfer his patient to a specialist or a memory consultation that exist now in many clinics.

tests help find out if there really is a dementia or just simply
to the "normal" decline in brain power. Sometimes behind the memory stick problems and diseases, such as an underactive thyroid or depression.
helps then often targeted treatment of these disorders, improve the brain power back.