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  2. Doctors Say This Nighttime Behavior Can Be A Sign Of Dementia

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    Here's how to distinguish "sundowning"—agitation or confusion later in the day in dementia patients—from typical aging, from doctors who treat older adults.

  3. Sundowning - Wikipedia

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    Elderly people often experience multiple comorbidities that may contribute to the phenomenon of sundowning syndrome through neurodegeneration. Neurological disorders: Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease , Huntington's disease , Lewy body dementia , fronto-temporal dementia, subcortical dementia.

  4. What Stage of Dementia Is Sundowning? (and How to ... - AOL

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  5. The 7 Stages of Dementia: What They Are & What To Expect - AOL

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    Stage 4 dementia symptoms include: Social withdrawal. Emotional moodiness. Lack of responsiveness. Reduced intellectual sharpness. Trouble with routine tasks. Forgetting recent events. Denial of ...

  6. Lewy body dementia - Wikipedia

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    Between 5% and 25% of diagnosed dementias in older adults are due to one of the Lewy body dementias. [14] [a] As of 2014, the Lewy body dementias affect about 1.3 million people in the US and 140,000 in the UK. [6] LBD usually develops after the age of 50. [8] Men are more likely to be diagnosed than women. [8]

  7. Memory and aging - Wikipedia

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    Most research on memory and aging has focused on how older adults perform worse at a particular memory task. However, researchers have also discovered that simply saying that older adults are doing the same thing, only less of it, is not always accurate. In some cases, older adults seem to be using different strategies than younger adults.

  8. 'They get confused': Eclipse could cause anxiety for patients ...

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    The sudden darkness will activate behavioral changes known as "sundowning" that many older adults experience every evening 'They get confused': Eclipse could cause anxiety for patients with ...

  9. Alcohol-related dementia - Wikipedia

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    The signs and symptoms of alcohol-related dementia are essentially the same as the symptoms present in other types of dementia, making alcohol-related dementia difficult to diagnose. There are very few qualitative differences between alcohol dementia and Alzheimer's disease and it is therefore difficult to distinguish between the two. [6]