There are various types of senile dementia; the main and best known types are: Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and Lewy body dementia.
With still little known causes, senile dementia causes a "wide variety of symptoms and signs; initially, it produces occasional personality problems, mild deficits in memory, language and reasoning, etc .; at an intermediate stage, it is responsible for a worsening of the problems. initial, a partial decline of cognitive faculties etc .; finally, in the advanced stage, it is the reason for a total loss of cognitive abilities, difficulty in swallowing, inability to recognize loved ones, etc.
At the present time, senile dementia is an incurable condition; however, there are several symptomatic therapies to support patients.
Dementias are neurodegenerative pathologies of the brain, which can affect the elderly and younger people, and which cause a progressive decline in an individual's cognitive faculties.
A collection of general information, relating to dementia, is present in the following two articles:
I in-depth study: Dementia: What it is, Causes and Symptoms
