Dementia has no age limit; you may want to know these early warning signs!
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Like the wilting and dying leaves that begin to fall from the tree until it's bare, that’s what happens when the cells, in the brain, begin to die.
What happens when dementia strikes?
We already know that the neurotypical brain never stops growing, although cell loss is always happening too. In a brain affected by the most common type of dementia-Alzheimer’s Disease, new cells stop forming. Not only that; a process called neurodegeneration starts. This means that the neurons in the affected person’s brain start to lose their structure and function and may even die. The result of this is the shrinking of the brain, called atrophy. It takes place mostly in the part of the brain that is responsible for memory and orientation, the hippocampus. To this day, scientists don’t know exactly why this happens or how to stop or reverse this process of neuron death.
Our Family’s Introduction to Dementia
Alzheimer’s, one of the subsets of Dementia, made its introduction into our family years ago when my father’s oldest sister, five years his junior, was diagnosed. One morning, her children found her filling the coffee maker filter with butter, and putting a wrapped…
