Dementia

Research conducted at Kobe Gakuin University has updated our knowledge about dementia

Published in Elder Law Weekly, October 1st, 2008

"Dementia is a clinical syndrome characterized by a loss of intelligence once possessed by an individual. Clinically intelligence can be defined as an ability of an individual to get involved in social life as a responsible and independent member by employing his/her own cognitive resources in the most effective way," investigators in Kobe, Japan report.

"This ability has been attributed either to a unique faculty called g-factor or to the sum of several slave mental faculties such as memory, language, spatio-manual capacity and so on. Dementia is thus thought to be caused either by a loss of g-factor, or by the simultaneous loss of two or three slave faculties. Based...

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Source: Elder Law Weekly (2008-10-01)

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