All right, you just took the quiz. So now we're going to talk about my pet peeves, which I think is the best way to really discuss dementia. Okay. People ask me very frequently, what is the difference between dementia and Alzheimer's? That's kind of like saying, What's the difference between cancer and skin cancer? That would be a pretty silly question.

And for some reason, it gets very confusing when it comes to dementia. I think it's because a lot of times professionals will say, oh, dementia and Alzheimer's in the same sentence. It makes it sound like we're talking about two different things and we're really not. So dementia is the umbrella term. And Alzheimer's is the most common cause form type, whatever you want to call it, of dementia. Just like cancer is the umbrella term and skin cancer is a form of cancer.

All timer we need To make sure we're pronouncing all timer disease correctly, not all timers, not old timers, right. There's no t in there. We need to make sure we're saying all timers because all timer was the German last name so it was named for German physician. Dementia is not contagious. Sometimes people ask me that or, or maybe people think that, you know, if you care for someone with dementia, you're going to end up getting it yourself. And that that's not true.

Hollywood does a really poor job with dementia. I think. Most movies kind of depict people with dementia. They kind of use it as a plot device. Like oh, conveniently this person has forgotten who the murderer was, things like that. So Hollywood does a poor job with with dementia.

The movie that notebook in particular does a really terrible job. I've only seen a couple TV shows and movies that really do it. Well. The one that isn't the best, in my opinion is the TV show The Sopranos. I'm not just biased because I'm from New Jersey. Dementia is not a normal part of aging.

So it is quite possible to get through your whole life without any cognitive loss. We all know people who are you know, in their 90s and hundreds who actually don't have any dementia, they're sharp is attack all that we used to call dementia senility or being senile or say things like, Oh, well, you know, Grandma, she's getting old. And really, grandma had dementia, but we didn't know what it was. So we just called it vanilla. We don't it's kind of a bad word. Now.

We don't use the word senility anymore. Dementia Care is an art form. I'll say that probably a million times throughout this presentation because it takes practice, like any art form, you're not going to wake up in the morning. Just be good at it, you need time and practice and dementia care is no different. There are over 70 different types of dementia. So like I said, it's an umbrella term, we're going to talk about this in a little more detail.

But there's not just one, you know, cause of dementia. It's not just like one disease. And I also want to mention that occasionally hearing people mistake the phrase early onset for early stage. early onset means you're getting dementia before the age of 65, which is actually pretty rare. early stages means you're in the beginning phases of the disease process. So these are two different things.

I want to make sure we're not using them, you know, interchangeably.