Lower memory is the most frequent manifestation of the normal mental aging. As the falling speed of mental processes, deteriorating ability to concentrate, have trouble individual names, names, memory new information.

These violations do not prevent everyday memory and social life of people aged patients remained unchanged, all personal and social characteristics. In the case of adverse enhanced mental age of memory more pronounced and pose significant difficulties in everyday life.

They complain of forgetfulness, they are often overlooked, which put a thing could not recall the names of familiar people forget individual dates, face difficulties in counting money at the supermarket. They are trying to compensate for memory impairments through records, drills and repetition of new information. Finally, memory in old age may be the first and most visible manifestation of a serious disease, dementia (senile dementia).

The most frequent causes of senile dementia, disease and Alzheimer's disease. In the case of dementia of memory are never isolated, and always accompanied by changes in other mental functions and conduct as a whole. Individual orientation, first in time, then at the space. Patients impairment can call date, confused time of the year, can get lost in a familiar place. In more severe cases, forgotten home, their age, the facts of his own life, and sometimes do not recognize themselves in the mirror. Roughly violated expense.

Gradually, patients lose their usual skill, can not get dressed. Forgotten events in the story are supplanted patients false memories. Gradually, it is violated, understanding environment, the phrases are becoming increasingly short, meaningless. There are currently surveying techniques to make the correct diagnosis. The effective means to prevent and treat human memory, developing and reinforced during normal ageing, as well as dementia.

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