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Dementia: a chronic progressive loss of cognitive and intellectual functions, although perception and consciousness are intact. Characterized by disorientation, impaired judgment, memory loss. • O... nset: Slowly, over months • Causes: Alzheimer disease, vascular disease, HIV, neurological disease, chronic alcoholism, head trauma • Cognition: Impaired memory, judgment, calculations, attention span, abstract thinking, agnosia • Level of Consciousness: Not altered • Activity Level: Not altered; behaviors may worsen in evening (sundowners) • Emotional State: Flat; agitation • Speech and Language: Incoherent, slow (sometimes due to effort to find the right words), rambling, repetitious • Prognosis: Not reversible; progressive [Show More]

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