Harmfulness or senile dementia?

Those who fell to live with older relatives, observed how the character changes after 70-75 years. The traits that were characteristic of the elderly person all his life begin to exaggerate, become more noticeable, more unpleasant.

So the desire for savings can turn into avarice, distrust - become suspicious, and self-confidence - stubbornness.

The character traits inherent in all members of the older generation sometimes reach the extreme level. The rejection of the modern order, the constant and persistent praise of the past, the denial of reality, the desire for moralizing sometimes make a life together with the old man unbearable.

Angry at their egocentrism, we rarely think about the fact that all these unpleasant traits characterize senile dementia, the symptoms of which can arise in the declining years of any person.

Senile dementia is not a harmful, but a serious disease that leads to brain atrophy.

It develops gradually. First, negative character traits develop, then attention is reduced. It is difficult for the patient to concentrate, to gather his thoughts. He hardly switches attention, remembers the new.

Gradually developing, the disease alleviates the individual traits of a person, forcing him to think and speak with cliches. At the forefront are rudeness, suspicion, callousness. The patient gradually loses the feeling of attachment to relatives, becomes malicious, grumpy, angry.

In some old people, on the contrary, the loss of individual traits is replaced by a constant, unmotivated complacency, ridiculousness, excessive and obsessive talk.

Sometimes there may be a craving for sexual perversion.

If senile dementia is not treated in time, then a gradual loss of memory can lead to the fact that the sufferer will forget all life experience, except for a few moments of his youth or youth. In particularly difficult cases, such old people may not realize what year it is now, they will no longer recognize others, they will forget their name.

The peculiarity of the disease is that patients who have begun leveling their personality for a long time retain their characteristic gestures, facial expressions, gait, movement manners. Such people may well appear to be healthy. That is why relatives often do not think about the diagnosis of elders, accepting deviations in behavior for intentional harmfulness. However, sometimes old people are not able to answer the question of their age, name, etc. This will be a signal to the fact that the person is sick.

Unfortunately, medicine can not yet establish the causes of the onset of such a disorder. Doctors are sure of one thing - one of the components of the disease is heredity.

Is senile dementia the verdict? There is a cure.

First, the patient needs to create conditions that imitate the most active way of life. Senile dementia is progressing from idleness. Therefore, it is important to take the old people with housework, needlework, and pick up other activities for them.

Naturally, you can not leave such people unattended. However, placing them in the clinic can do much harm: with such a diagnosis, you can not dramatically change the situation.

Secondly, although a medicine capable of completely curing senile dementia does not exist, a doctor can prescribe a set of drugs that eliminate individual symptoms.

Finally, in the most severe cases, patients can be placed in a hospital, where doctors will prescribe sedatives, psychotropic drugs or tranquilizers as needed.

To senile dementia does not lead to serious consequences, children are advised to carefully and carefully monitor their elderly parents. A good attitude, timely medical assistance can ease the disease, establish relationships within the family.