Professional paper
Changes in Life-Quality, a Possible Symptom of Dementia Development
Elizabeta Dadić-Hero
Tanja Grahovac
Marina Kovac
Abstract
Dementia is a chronic and irreversible brain impairment characterised by significant cognitive deficits. Severe symptoms
of the aforesaid disease interfere with normal life functions and daily activities. Dementia usually develops with
advancing age, i.e. after the age of 85, and when it develops in people younger than age 65, it is referred to as early onset
dementia. This paper presents a 53-year-old male patient. Provisional diagnosis was established while further diagnostic
workup included psycho-diagnostic assessment, neurological exam, and brain CT. Such workup confirmed the development
of dementia, i.e. early-onset Alzheimer’s disease accompanied by depressed mood with impaired vision.
Keywords
early onset dementia; Mb. Alzheimer; cognitive deficits
Hrčak ID:
72282
URI
Publication date:
25.9.2011.
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