Dementia means an illness characterized by multiple cognitive deficits which represent a decline from previous levels of functioning and include memory impairment and one or more of the following cognitive disturbances: aphasia, apraxia, agnosia, and disturbance in executive functioning.
Dementia means a clinical syndrome characterized by a decline in mental function of long duration in an alert individual. Symptoms of dementia include memory loss and the loss or diminution of other cognitive abilities such as learning ability, judgment, comprehension, attention and orientation to time and place and to oneself.
Dementia means the diagnosis of dementia as confirmed by a consultant neurologist or geriatrician resulting in significant cognitive impairment. Significant cognitive impairment means
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The Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR): current version and scoring rules.
Classification of Persons by Dementia Status in the National Health and Aging Trends Study.
Hospice Staff Perspectives on Caring for People with Dementia: A Multisite, Multistakeholder Study.
Identification of Dementia: Agreement among National Survey Data, Medicare Claims, and Death Certificates.
Hospice Care for Patients With Dementia in the United States: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.
More Definitions of Dementia
Dementia means a condition documented through the assessment process required by WAC 388-76-10335.
Dementia means an acquired loss of intellectual functioning (primarily abstract thinking, memory, and judgment) of sufficient severity to interfere with a person’s ability to act independently and perform routine daily activities. Symptoms of dementia can include memory loss and the loss or diminution of other cognitive abilities, such as learning ability, judgment, comprehension, attention and orientation to time and place and to oneself. Dementia is not a disease in and of itself but rather a group of symptoms that accompanies certain diseases and conditions. Dementia can be caused by such diseases as Alzheimer’s Disease, Pick’s Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Parkinson’s Disease, Huntington’s Disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, multi-infarct dementia, etc.
Dementia means a degenerative condition that causes progressive deterioration of intellectual
Dementia means a deterioration of intellectual function and other cognitive skills, leading to a decline in one's ability to perform activities of daily living.
Dementia means a degenerative condition that causes progressive deterioration of intellectual functioning and other cognitive skills, including but not limited to aphasia, apraxia, memory, agnosia and executive functioning, that leads to a significant impairment in social or occupational function and that represents a significant decline from a previous level of functioning. Diagnosis is by history and physical examination.]
Dementia means the diagnosis of dementia as confirmed by a consultant neurologist or geriatrician resulting in significant cognitive impairment. Significant cognitive impairment means deterioration in the Life Insured’s Mini Mental State Examination, or equivalent thereof, scores to 20 or less.