Who is most at risk for developing dementia?
Older individuals are most at risk from dementia, and again a very important point to keep in mind is that the individual is taking several different medications to address their problems with their liver, their heart, their kidneys, their thyroids, etc. It could have an interaction with those medications, which might bring about a problem. The individual that's having recurrent or frequent urinary tract infection or lower respiratory infection depending on what climate that individual lives in, might be at greater risk of dementia for those given problems. A vitamin deficiency, so the dietary intake of the individual. Alcohol consumption, the individual is drinking too much is that danger of falling or striking their heads and again just the direct influence of too much alcohol can actually be bad on the brain. So, there are many different groups of individuals that could suffer from specific problems of a dementia. The individual that has had a history of depression and because there's a suspicion that this is just part of their depression and there isn't a dementing process of spewing underneath might be missed also. So, again those would be individuals with a reversible dementing process. Individuals with say a specific non-reversible dementia that are at greater risks typically older and having had a family history of any one of those given conditions whether it's Alzheimer, Parkinson's Disease, etc.
