a general term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life. Memory loss is an example. Alzheimer's is the most common type of dementia.There are several conditions that can cause dementia. A Case of Alzheimer’s Dementia in Uganda lists some of the most important:
Dementia is not a specific disease. It's an overall term that describes a wide range of symptoms associated with a decline in memory or other thinking skills severe enough to reduce a person's ability to perform everyday activities. Alzheimer's disease accounts for 60 to 80 percent of cases. Vascular dementia, which occurs after a stroke, is the second most common dementia type. But there are many other conditions that can cause symptoms of dementia, including some that are reversible, such as thyroid problems and vitamin deficiencies.
Alzheimer’s disease
vascular dementias infections (commonly HIV and Syphilis) substance abuse (alcohol) trauma (road traffic accidents) nutritional deficiencies (vitamin B-12).
A 1996 Ugandan study, Prevalence of dementia in an elderly rural population: effects of age, sex, and education, found that dementia affects 8% of the elderly population over 64 years. Dementia affects men and women equally. The numbers of those affected increases increases with age. Assuming a population of 38,000,000 of which 3.1% are 65 years or over there are 94,240 elderly people with dementia.
In 2007 Johns Hopkins published the following article, HIV Dementia Alarmingly High in Africa:
In the first study of HIV dementia on the African continent using rigorous neurological and neuropsychological tests, 31 percent of a small but presumably representative group of HIV-positive patients in Uganda were found to have HIV dementia, according to Ned Sacktor, M.D., a Johns Hopkins neurologist and senior author of a multi-institutional study that will be published Jan. 29 in Neurology...“If the rate we saw in our study translates across sub-Saharan Africa, we’re looking at more than 8,000,000 people in this region with HIV dementia,” says Sacktor.
Sacktor says an extremely high rate of HIV dementia in Africa and other poor regions of the world adds enormously to the social and economic burden of their populations and governments. Dementia not only disrupts jobs and adds to the cost of care, but also interferes with a patient’s ability to adhere to a regular course of antiretroviral medication, thus increasing the risk of drug resistance. People with dementia also are less likely to practice safe sex.
Before antiretroviral medications were available in the United States, the U.S. rate of HIV dementia was similar to what was discovered in this study in Uganda, says Sacktor. Unfortunately, he says, only 20 percent of people infected with HIV in the world are getting treatment.
“We hope studies like these will shed additional light on the devastating problem of HIV in resource-limited countries like Uganda and encourage more programs that bring much-needed medication to these poor regions of the world,” Sacktor says.Sacktor says there’s little accurate data about HIV dementia patients in other parts of the world current estimates of the number of HIV-positive patients who have dementia range from 9 percent to 54 percent.The number of persons with HIV/AIDS related dementia surpasses the number of elderly with dementia.
In Uganda dementia is not only a disease of old age. The high prevalence of HIV/AIDS means there is a large number of people that are suffering from the effects HIV/AIDS related dementia. A 2013 Ugandan study, Prevalence and factors associated with probable HIV dementia in an African population: A cross-sectional study of an HIV/AIDS clinic population estimates that 64.4% of HIV positive people have signs of dementia. Assuming a population of 38,000,000 and 7.3% of the population affected by HIV/AIDS there are a further 1,775,360 persons suffering from the effects of dementia.
In 2015 there were an estimated 46,800,000 people living with dementia in the world. With 1,775,360 HIV/AIDS related dementia cases Uganda has almost 4% of the worlds dementia cases.
For more information about dementia see the Facebook page of the Dementia Foundation of Uganda.
For more information about the elderly with dementia see Uganda Reach the Aged Association (URAA) on Facebook or go to the Uganda Reach the Aged Association (URAA) website.
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I can’t forget in a hurry my Mom's horrible years of fight with Mental ailment (Alzheimer). My Mom got really sick around Christmas that year. When I saw her in the hospital with all those tubes, I just lost it. I got so hysterical that I had to be escorted out. Soon after that, I got into that altercation with my neighbor and was sent to jail. When I got out of jail, Her symptoms were acting up and I felt so angry. Dad had already taken her to a state psychiatric hospital. I was really nervous, but I talked to a psychiatrist there who made me feel comfortable. For the first time, she opened up about what she was experiencing—the voices, not being able to remember things, the paranoia. She said, “Your mom is battling Alzheimer.” I didn’t even know what that meant.
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