What is a degenerative illness?

What is a degenerative illness?

One thing that you will often hear about dementia is that it is a degenerative illness. In simple terms, this means that dementia continues to worsen with time. While this sounds scary, there are many ways of slowing down this process, meaning that a person living...
Dementia: is there a cure?

Dementia: is there a cure?

Current status Since dementia does not have one individual cause, it follows suit that there would not be one individual ‘cure’. As it stands, although research is progressing every day, there is no cure for dementia; rather there are medications that alleviate...