dementia patient
Cognitive decline case
A dementia patient is someone receiving care for dementia—a progressive decline in memory, reasoning, and other cognitive functions.
The term appears in medical and caregiving contexts: The facility specializes in dementia patients.
Some prefer "person with dementia" to emphasize the individual over the diagnosis.
- memoryMind's retention capacity
- memory careSupport for cognitive decline
- forgettingFailing to retain memories
- lost in timeErased by passing centuries
- Alzheimer'sDegenerative brain disease
confusion · wandering · sundowning · nursing home · lucid · recognition · familiar face · familiar · lost · elderly · decline · cognitive · disorientation · agitation · who are you · repetition · identity · photographs
- missing peoplemissing child, lost child, lost hiker, lost tourist, abductee
- disabled peoplewheelchair user, amputee, paraplegic, quadriplegic, blind person
- therapy patientsinpatient, outpatient