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give general features of dementia:
1. Behavior
- inability to make decisions
- loss of interest and initative
- social withdrawal
2. Thinking
- reduced concentration
- preservation ( getting fixed on one object or topic)
- less flexible
- confabulation (fill in gabs in ones memory with fabricatiosn that one beleives to be facts
3. Speech
- difficulty with names
- less complex
- more disorganised
4. Memory
- difficulty with new learning
- recent > remote (but both affected)
- disruption of temporal sequences
5. Insigt
- may be present early on, later generally lost
- inability to make decisions
- loss of interest and initative
- social withdrawal
2. Thinking
- reduced concentration
- preservation ( getting fixed on one object or topic)
- less flexible
- confabulation (fill in gabs in ones memory with fabricatiosn that one beleives to be facts
3. Speech
- difficulty with names
- less complex
- more disorganised
4. Memory
- difficulty with new learning
- recent > remote (but both affected)
- disruption of temporal sequences
5. Insigt
- may be present early on, later generally lost
