were both working full-time, we’d go visit weekends, so we were there really regularly. Paula: Well, I think in the early days, you could have a conversation. Maria Cohut: Paula, how did this affect you and your sister financially and during day to day life? And it probably took us about 6 months or so after he died to realize that, you know, we probably did need to take her to the doctor, and to find out what was happening.ĭr. And I think helped her through a lot of those daily things.Īfter he died, I think it became much more obvious, but, you know, at that stage, we weren’t sure whether sort of a grief thing. I think that she had started to develop some form of dementia before that, but sort of helped each other out. I think my sister and I first noticed that there were some issues with her memory after my father had died. So Paula, you’ve been looking after your mother with dementia alongside working. So only a small percentage of actual Alzheimer’s disease cases have got that genetic, known hereditary link.ĭr. So 3% of cases of Alzheimer’s disease will have that known genetic origin, and this is caused by genetic mutations. The most common type of Alzheimer’s disease is what we call sporadic Alzheimer’s disease, and that counts for 97% of Alzheimer’s disease cases. So if we’re going to talk about Alzheimer’s disease - which I think is a good idea, because it’s the most common brain disease that leads to dementia - there are some types of Alzheimer’s disease that are hereditary and some types that aren’t.
Ameen Ali: It depends on what brain disease we’re talking about. But for a diagnosis of dementia, you also have to have an impairment in one or more other cognitive domains as well - this might be personality, it might be visual-spatial skills, for example.Īnd as I mentioned, dementia as a clinical syndrome is distinct from something like Alzheimer’s disease, which is a type of brain disease that leads to dementia.ĭr. It describes a set of symptoms, it’s a clinical syndrome - those symptoms are often associated with memory impairment. Often you might hear people use it interchangeably with things like Alzheimer’s disease, but they’re very distinct things.ĭementia, we kind of describe it as an umbrella term. Kamar Ameen-Ali: I always think that it’s good when we are discussing dementia to start off with a definition of what we mean by it. Hilary Guite: Let’s start with an overview of dementia and its causes.ĭr.
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Please listen to the podcast - below or on your preferred platform - for the full discussion.ĭr. We have added reference links to key research findings mentioned in it. This article provides an edited and shortened record of this instalment of our podcast. Kamar Ameen-Ali, who is a lecturer in biomedical science at Teesside University in the United Kingdom, and who specializes in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s. In our latest instalment of In Conversation, we spoke with Paula Field, who is a caregiver for her mother who lives with Alzheimer’s disease, and with Dr. There are some treatments that can help alleviate some dementia symptoms, but most forms of dementia are currently incurable, and researchers continue to investigate the mechanisms through which this syndrome develops with a view to developing better treatments and prevention strategies. Research conducted by the Alzheimer’s Society in 2019 indicates that over 850,000 people were living with dementia in the United Kingdom that year, and globally, more than 55 million people live with dementia, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in the United States alone, in 2020, as many as 5.8 million people had Alzheimer’s disease. The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease, which affects millions of people worldwide. Share on Pinterest Design by Andrew Nguyen.ĭementia is a neurocognitive syndrome that refers to a collection of symptoms related to memory loss and the decline of cognitive function.
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