DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
ADULTHOOD PHYSICAL COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
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Deterioration of intellectual faculties, such as memory, concentration, and judgment, resulting from an organic disease or a disorder of the brain
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Mistreatment of elderly persons that can be physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, neglect, exploitation (usually financial) and abandonment
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The physical and emotional caretaking of older members of the family, whether that care is day-to-day physical assistance or responsibility for arranging and overseeing such care
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he scientific study of old age, the process of aging, and the problems of old people
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Detailed explanation-1: -The American Heritage Medical Dictionary defines dementia as: [the] deterioration of intellectual faculties, such as memory, concentration, and judgment, resulting from an organic disease or a disorder of the brain, and often accompanied by emotional disturbance and personality changes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and, eventually, the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. In most people with the disease-those with the late-onset type symptoms first appear in their mid-60s.
Detailed explanation-3: -Functions that are particularly affected in dementia include executive function (the ability to plan, organise and complete tasks), vision, language, emotion and behaviour, and memory.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dementia is caused by damage to or loss of nerve cells and their connections in the brain. Depending on the area of the brain that’s damaged, dementia can affect people differently and cause different symptoms.