The part of the brain that has a huge impact on the brain with the elderly with dementia is the cortex. This part of the brain will be affected in many ways with memory loss associated with dementia. The potential causes of cognitive decline are loss of memory, intelligence, language and speech issues. Working in an assisted living home you see many of the elderly with dementia and there is not much you can do for them besides just be there by their side and help them through things. There are some residents that you can work with to try and help their memory come back and then there are others that are to far into the dementia stage that there is no helping with getting the memory back. Medication for types of dementias help by making the
