Alice Outlaw

From Brain Changes to Lifestyle Factors What Causes Dementia?

It is often realized when the changes have started. A missed appointment. A well known face that suddenly becomes strange. A dialogue that is interrupted in the middle. Dementia does not come as a sudden event--it develops over a long time, based on the years of alterations within the brain and the decisions which are made in life. In order to comprehend the reasons behind dementia, it would be of help to go back to where the family normally finds itself: making sense of what has happened and what lies ahead.