What is Dementia?
People who are not able to think, recognize, and memorize using the cognitive system can be called dementia. Dementia is not only about forgetting something but also it is about someone who losses their ability of the cognitive system function such as the abilities to control the emotion. Dementia has so many sub-types it is about 200 sub-types. Many common of dementia types are Alzheimer, Vascular dementia, Frontotemporal dementia. Alzheimer is a highly common type of dementia, people who are unable to communicate in order to respond to somebody whereas they usually are easy to getting lost in a common place and they are not able to make an appropriate decision, misplacing things, changing in mood including personality and behavior.
Who will suffer?
Everyone can suffer dementia, highly for the elderlies. According to WHO commonly it started at 65 years old. The early symptoms are forgetting something, losing and misplacing, getting lost in a walk including confusing in a place, difficulties in making any decisions, having trouble in conversation, having issues such as anxiety, and conducting inappropriate behavior. The number of dementia has risen, it has been predicted the number will increase up to 152 million cases in 2050 (Livingston, Huntley, Sommerlad, Ames, & and friends, 2020).
Statistical data of Alzheimer and Dementia in Indonesia
In Indonesia, dementia is 106th position in the world in 2020. It is a huge number. It must be an attention for us about this case. Meanwhile, it is 12th for the cause of death in Indonesia it attacks cervical and liver cancer as a heavy disease. It looks like that dementia is a dangerous disease contributing the death for any risks such as smoking, bad diet, obesity, consuming alcohol, poor blood pressure, sugar, and cholesterol all these can impact to dementia.
See this link below:
https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/indonesia-alzheimers-dementia
What cause?
Dementia usually can be referred as the neurocognitive disorder, the general term affect to disorder of mental function.
There are many causes of dementia: