Modern science says that dementia is affecting more and more people, and younger and younger. Is it forgetfulness or is it dementia? It scares us with uncertainty. But there is also certainty - there is a solution to every problem. Really? See for yourself. I remember that shocking moment when I suddenly found myself on a stage... I caught my breath as I saw hundreds of eyes waiting silently for something from me... That difficult moment when I forgot what I wanted to say. A catastrophe! You think it can't get any worse? A mistake.
Another flashback: a friendly voice wants to know my name. My name? "Name. From me?... I'll tell you in a minute..." I didn't know my name anymore. But I knew what it was called, what I felt... I still remember well how a person feels when they have forgotten their name...
Is it forgetfulness or already dementia?
I was 3 years old. Old? Or young? Whatever. In a few decades, you will feel the same in a similar situation. The short-term memory and the long-term memory play "cat and mouse" with us. What is first for a small child is second for an older child. We all run in the same circle. But we hope to go straight ahead. And where are the solutions? Exactly! Not solutions - but solutions. As long as we live, they exist. In the invisible, but also in everyday life.
Forgetfulness or already dementia?
Where does forgetting end and dementia begin?
Today I know that there are people who forget to turn off the stove when they leave the house. Or people who suddenly no longer know the way home... Every child knows the unpleasant feeling of having forgotten what they wanted to say... Every adult knows the feeling of not being able to say a name or term...
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Forgetfulness or already dementia?
The boundary between “HEALTHY” and “SICK” is often invisible … Do YOU see this boundary,
where forgetting ends and dementia begins?
Can you tell me: forgetfulness or dementia? And HOW can we protect ourselves or our loved ones from it? Can we do that at all? Regardless of age and situation? Can we at least do something? Yes. We can.
How can we help?
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Do you even know who discovered the disease? His name is Alois Alzheimer.
In 1907, the psychiatrist and neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer published a treatise on a “peculiar disease of the cerebral cortex.” Three years later, the “Textbook of Psychiatry” first referred to this disease as Alzheimer’s disease – or Alzheimer’s for short.
Alois Alzheimer (1864 – 1915)
Are dementia and Alzheimer's one and the same?
Dementia is the umbrella term for all pathological impairments of memory, thinking, and cognitive abilities. Alzheimer's is just one of many forms of dementia. Strokes, hypothyroidism, and inflammations such as multiple sclerosis can also lead to dementia. In Alzheimer's disease, more and more neurons gradually die. The impulse and nutrient pathways inside the cell break down and at the same time form around the nerve cells as protein clumps that prevent nerve impulses from being transmitted. At 40 percent, Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia and is therefore often equated with the umbrella term. "Dementia robs millions of people of their memory, independence, and dignity, but it also robs the rest of us of the people we know and love," said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), when presenting a study last year. "It reports a rapid increase in the number of cases. … Prevention work should begin in childhood.”
We can't predict anything.
And we can't always be sure.
But we can prevent and protect.
