Dementia is a condition where your memory, intellect, personality get impaired, without impairment of consciousness. forgetting recent things is the most common feature of dementia, which may progress eventually into forgetting long term memory as well. In this presentation, clinical features of dementia is explored.

1. Dementia Clinical Features

2. • Poor memory –
• recent memory more than the remote memory
• Forgetfulness –
• of recent things with preserved long term memory
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3. • Disturbances in personality
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4. • Disturbances in behavior
• Behavior
• aimless,
• stereotypical,
• mannerism
• Stereotypy –
• purposeless repetitive movements (rocking in a chair)
• Mannerism –
• goal directed repetitive movements (repetitive hand movement to convey the
message)
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5. • Disturbances in language
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6. • Disturbances in perception
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7. • Disturbances in mood
• Mood
• distress,
• irritability,
• anxious
• later blunt
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8. • Loss of flexibility and adaptation to new situations
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9. • Difficulty in learning new things
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10. • Impaired attention and concentration – non specific
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11. • Less able to care themselves
• Self neglect
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12. • Avoid social conventions
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13. • Disoriented in
• time,
• then place,
• then person
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14. • Thinking
• slows
• improvised content and perseverative
• false persecutory beliefs
• later grossly fragment and incoherent
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15. • Death often following bronchopneumonia, terminal coma
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