Dementia, A General Medical Practitioner’s Concern: A Review

Abstract

The senile population is often ignored by society without heeding to their actual complaints; their medical

management is carried superficially. It is inevitable for the growing population and increased lifespan to pose

the threats of psychosomatic discomforts of advancing age, where early clinical recognition of conditions

like dementia will play an important role. Dementia requires keen scrutiny by the general practitioners,

they need to give utmost importance and attention. The medical practitioner will play an important role

in identifying the clinical condition like dementia during its initial stage itself. From the point of general

practice, it will become important to convince the patient and his family members to handle the situation

by referring to a psychiatrist or psychologist or a rehabilitation center for the needful. Hence this article

will review some basics of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) especially form the point of the fraternity of general

medical practitioners in the society.