Dementia is afraid of daily worries

Those old people who are beginning to be lazy in the daily affairs, more than others are prone to senile dementia. Conversely, if the elderly are many cases, the dementia they do not grozit.Sara Tomazhevski Ferias (Sarah Tomaszewski Farias), PhD, University of California (University of California), USA, together with his colleagues studied 111 older people with moderate deterioration of thinking. Of these, 46% (51) selected among the patients of memory disorders clinic at the university and 54% (60 people) were recruited at random. All participants in the experiment, which lasted 2.4 years, were a systematic clinical examination, neuropsychological diagnosis and standard laboratory testy.Za all the time the study degradation processes of thinking has developed into senile dementia in 28 people (including 23 of the clinic and in 5 of the social environment ). It turns out that each year 13% of patients from the clinic and 3% of patients in community group comes dementsiya.Iz all risk factors for dementia, one was the most significant - is the degree of reduction of the daily functionality of rights before the test. That is, the less hassle and works at an elderly person, the greater the chance that he will in his old age insane. No demographic, cognitive or neurological indicators failed to predict the development of cognitive activity sobytiy.Oslablenie specialists distinguish today in a separate risk factor for dementia. According to the latest information of psychiatrists, the incidence of age-weakening transition of thinking in dementia with psychiatric patients ranges from 10 to 15% per year. In a normal social environment, these figures significantly lower - from 3,8 to 6,3% annually. The authors of write: "It is clear that patients with a moderate deterioration of thinking are a heterogeneous group of patients that not all will go as a result of his mind. It is now important to identify risk factors for this disease, to learn how to determine how fast the progress will be destructive processes in the brain of these patients. "Thus, it does not matter whether the patient was observed to be diagnosed at an institution or struggling with memory lapses with the attending physician in the clinic. But the degree of reduction of functional activity of man can be a very fertile ground for the development of dementia - the authors write. - The less spinning in the lives of older people, the higher his risk of developing dementia. "