Tribunnews.com reporter Eko Sutriyanto
TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA – Screening and early diagnosis to prevent dementia (senility) are very important considering that medical measures or modern medical treatments cannot guarantee a cure or return to normal for the sufferers dementia.
If it is at a certain stage, the treatment will be optimized so that it does not get worse or to the next level of severity with the aim that the patient can adapt to his condition with the maximum quality of life.
Some special and important therapies, she said, require family support and environmental support.
On an ongoing basis, consultation is the right step to monitor developments with ideal treatment, including a healthy lifestyle, regular exercise, adequate nutritional intake while exercising your brain regularly.
“Including the management of comorbidities like diabetes, cholesterol, high blood pressure, which are things that can be done to prevent dementia disorders,” Lothar said.
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To say dementia described a number of symptoms, namely memory loss, difficulty thinking and problem solving, and even speech.
Dementia occurs when the brain shrinks from diseases such as Alzheimer’s, stroke, and head trauma.
In detail, dementia it is a condition of impaired brain function such as loss of memory and judgment or also memory, thought patterns and will interfere with the independence of the sufferer’s activities.
Of the many types of dementia, data shows that the one often found is Alzheimer’s which will be related to genetic and protein changes in the brain and there are also other types such as vascular dementia which is caused by disorders of the blood vessels of the brain, he said.
“Like a house that is dementia and one of the rooms in it is Alzheimer’s. It can be interpreted that Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia more common,” said Dr Lothar.
He mentioned a number of trigger risk factors, namely increasing age, family genetics, unhealthy eating habits, infrequent exercise, and can also be due to smoking and alcohol addiction.
“Risk factors are triggered by different conditions such as depression, Down syndrome, sleep apnea, high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes,” she said.
Dr. Lothar added, the main symptoms of sufferers dementia it is a memory decline and mindset change that shows up in behavior and speech and tends to get worse over time.
