Does a psychiatric hospital provide Dementia? My understanding of DEMENTIA is that it happens naturally to people.
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If you mean care for people who are suffering dementia, it can be provided in any hospital that is certified to provide it. We now know that dementia is not a normal part of aging but is caused by a number of underlying medical conditions that can occur in both elderly and younger persons. Although an individual with dementia should always be under medical care, family members handle much of the day-to-day care. Medical care should focus on optimizing the individual’s health and quality of life while helping family members cope with the many challenges of caring for a loved one with dementia. Medical care depends on the underlying condition, but it most often consists of medications and nondrug treatments such as behavioral therapy. The symptoms have been observed in many animals as well.
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Dementia is an umbrella term for any number of neurological conditions that strike usually in old age, sometimes quite unpredictably. A psychiatric hospital may care for people who have it, but they do not cause the condition. Usually it happens as the body ages, or as the result of a brain injury or even caused by drug misuse. Naturally? Well, kind of. It's not necessarily caused by human actions. Alzeimer's, for instance, often falls under the category of dementia, but to my knowledge (at this point a few months old) we have yet to find a concrete cause for it.
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