Dementia SOS resumes – contrasting dementia and Traumatic Brain Injuries

Meet your author, Marc

After a bit of a hiatus in the work world, Dementia SOS is resuming once more. The author (Marc) has been working as a brain injury specialist for a local home health care company in Denver for the past year and a half and has a number of new insights to share – cognitive impairment due to open and closed head injuries overlaps the topic of dementia considerably.

Some of the near term articles will be focusing on various aspects of brain injury and contrasting symptoms with those of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and several other causes of dementia. Just as with aging, TBI’s (traumatic brain injuries) affect mobility, affect, memory (of course), and overall limitations in independence.

People with TBI’s also struggle with tremors, seizures, mild and major depression, drug interactions, incontinence issues, trouble swallowing and sleeping, and even some bouts of sun downing. But at the forefront of all of their symptoms is an overriding sense of loss and associated grief. We’ll examine this closer in the next post…