Dementia comes in many types and varying degrees of severity. Each type of dementia has a different way of affecting the individual. Some risks associated with dementia are deficits in cognition, ADL’s, and behavior. There are two sets of criteria to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. They are called DSM-IV-TR and NINCDS-ADRDA. Both sets of criteria require two or more deficits in cognition, a progressive decline in the affected areas of cognition, and excluding brain and other systematic diseases. There is no doubt that with age memory may decline. Proper assessment tools and medical tests call rule out normal aging process from the onset of a type of
