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is a disease commonly referred to as dementia. It affects 4 million Americans every year and is a major cause of disability in old age (Bunch, 1997, p. 106). Its prevalence increases with age (Bunch, 1997, p. 106). Dementia is characterized by a permanent memo ....

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.... such as writing lists or notes to themselves and leaving them in conspicuous places (Horton and Smart, 1984, p. 320). Individuals with benign forgetfulness also are acutely aware of their memory deficit, while those with dementia - except for in the early stages of the disease - have no insight into their memory deficit and often blame others for their problems. In addition to the memory deficit interfering with the patient's daily activities, patients with dementia have evidence of impaired abstract thinking, impaired judgement, or other disturbances of higher cortical functions such as aphasia (the inability to use of comprehend language), ap ....