Lewy Body Dementia Dallas Texas
Lewy Body Dementia
Most experts estimate that Lewy body dementia is the third most common cause of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia, accounting for 5 to 10 percent of cases.
Symptoms
Symptoms of Lewy body dementia include:
- Changes in thinking and reasoning.
- Confusion and alertness that varies significantly from one time of day to another or from one day to the next.
- Slowness, gait imbalance and other Parkinsonian movement features.
- Well-formed visual hallucinations.
- Delusions.
- Trouble interpreting visual information.
- Sleep disturbances.
- Malfunctions of the “automatic” (autonomic) nervous system.
- Memory loss that may be significant but less prominent than in Alzheimer’s.
For more information please visit: Lewy Body Dementia Association https://www.lbda.org/
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Our goal is to provide suggestions, resources, and education to the elderly and their loved ones for them to make decisions that work best for them. When working with people with Dementia, we provide useful behavioral management information and strategies for caregivers and family members to decrease and re-direct challenging behaviors such as aggression and agitation as needed.