Dementia is a kind of acquired progressive cognitive disorder syndrome. The patients' abilities of daily living, social intercourse and working are degenerated severely. Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia are the frequent types in gerontic dementia. They have different pathomechanism, clinical manifestation and treatment. The attack rate and case rate of dementia is increasing with age. With the globle population aging, the case rate will increase rapidly. It will take a long time to heal dementia. All this will give heavy mental and economic burden to individual, family and society. The medical member will make efforts to diagnosis and treat dementia early, to improve the quality of life, to delay the proceeding of the disease and to lessen the heavy burden of family and society.Objective: With the profound investigation of dementia, the diagnosis of dementia turns to be a challenge. The diagnosis will be easy when...
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