15 DEMENTIA TYPES
Although dementia strikes 1 of 6 Americans, and 1 of 3 seniors worldwide, the medical condition remains misunderstood.
Did you know there are 15 dementias?
15 DEMENTIA TYPES
Lewy Body Dementia
1. Dementia with Lewy bodies/DLB
2. Parkinson’s disease dementia/PDD
Vascular Dementia
3. Post-Stroke Dementia
4. Multi-Infarct Dementia
5. Binswanger Disease
Frontotemporal Dementia
6. Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia
7. Primary Progressive Aphasia
Other Dementias
8. Alzheimer's Disease
9. Normal pressure hydrocephalus
10. Creutzfeldt-Jacob
11. Wernicke-Korsakoff
12. Huntington’s disease
13. Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's Disease
14. Posterior Cortical Atrophy
15. LATE
16. *Mixed dementia
*People often develop multiple dementias.
The 15 types take many paths to reach dementia, not a disease but a medical condition. Often referred to as the "old folks disease," some forms attack children, young adults, the middle age people—those in the prime of their lives.
