what’s the difference between Alzheimer’s and Dementia?
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All Alzheimer’s patients are demented but not all demented patients have Alzheimer’s.
There are several different types of dementia such as Lewy-Body (often characterized by high levels of aggression), vascular dementia (often s/t strokes, alcoholism), CTE, Parkinson’s, FT, etc, etc, etc. Each can be rather nuanced in onset, progression, mortality, etc. In my experience, Lewy-Body is just awful. I’d often have loved ones come into my office with all sorts of bruises and scratches; convincing them it was safer for everyone to put the patient into a facility was always extremely difficult.
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