{"id":2876,"date":"2015-12-24T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T12:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehrandoctors.com\/online\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2015-12-24T13:29:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T12:29:40","slug":"how-to-spot-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehrandoctors.com\/online\/how-to-spot-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"How to spot dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehrandoctors.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dementia.png\" alt=\"dementia\" width=\"427\" height=\"343\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2878\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.tehrandoctors.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dementia.png 427w, http:\/\/www.tehrandoctors.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dementia-300x241.png 300w, http:\/\/www.tehrandoctors.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dementia-60x48.png 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/>As families meet up for the festive season, the Alzheimer&#8217;s Society is offering advice on recognising early signs of dementia in a loved one.<br \/>\nIt says it typically sees a rise in people seeking out such information and support at this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>While many realise that repeatedly forgetting names can be a red flag for dementia, few know that using repetitive phrases can also be a sign.<br \/>\nStuttering or mispronouncing words is another warning.<br \/>\nThere are around 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>And 225,000 more people will develop dementia this year &#8211; that&#8217;s one every three minutes.<br \/>\nA YouGov survey of more than 4,000 adults reveals many people are confused about what are and are not signs of dementia.<\/p>\n<p>Many people thought that forgetting why you have walked into a room (39%) might be a sign, which could happen to anyone. For a person with dementia, it is not so much why they walked into a room that is troubling, but the room itself seeming unfamiliar. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-35154713\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- 728x90, add links tehdoc --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9334026102155055\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"0104791731\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As families meet up for the festive season, the Alzheimer&#8217;s Society is offering advice on recognising early signs of dementia in a loved one. It says it typically sees a rise in people seeking out such information and support at this time of year. While many realise that repeatedly forgetting names can be a red [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-medical-news","tag-dementia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehrandoctors.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehrandoctors.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehrandoctors.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehrandoctors.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehrandoctors.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehrandoctors.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehrandoctors.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehrandoctors.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehrandoctors.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehrandoctors.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}