<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7a653eb4-41a3-40de-b7f4-8e3c98795c5c/D895AB58-9576-41A2-BBF6-D4944EABCAFF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.caring.com/questions/the-difference-between-alzheimers-and-dementia" href="http://www.caring.com/questions/the-difference-between-alzheimers-and-dementia" style="font-size: 11px;">www.caring.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.caring.com/questions/the-difference-between-alzheimers-and-dementia"> The Difference Between Alzheimer's and Dementia</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.caring.com/questions/the-difference-between-alzheimers-and-dementia"><P class="first">Dementia isn't a disease but a set of symptoms -- such as memory loss and declines in abstract reasoning and attention -- caused by changes in the brain that affect daily functioning. Alzheimer's disease is one specific type of dementia.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.caring.com/questions/the-difference-between-alzheimers-and-dementia"><P>It might help to think about it like those logic problems in school: All people with Alzheimer's have dementia, but not all people with dementia have Alzheimer's.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.caring.com/questions/the-difference-between-alzheimers-and-dementia"><P>Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, accounting for more than half of all cases. There are dozens of other causes, including:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.caring.com/questions/the-difference-between-alzheimers-and-dementia"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Vascular dementia (also called multi-infarct disease, caused by small strokes).</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.caring.com/questions/the-difference-between-alzheimers-and-dementia"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The neurological diseases Lewy body dementia, <A title="Parkinson's" href="http://www.caring.com/parkinsons">Parkinson's disease</A>, Pick's disease, and Huntington's disease.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.caring.com/questions/the-difference-between-alzheimers-and-dementia"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Rarer disorders of the brain's frontal lobes, known as frontotemporal dementia.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.caring.com/questions/the-difference-between-alzheimers-and-dementia"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Infections (including urinary tract infections and AIDS).</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.caring.com/questions/the-difference-between-alzheimers-and-dementia"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Alcoholism or substance abuse.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.caring.com/questions/the-difference-between-alzheimers-and-dementia"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Medication interactions or side effects.</LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D895AB58-9576-41A2-BBF6-D4944EABCAFF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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