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Dementia in Children

What are the symptoms?

Symptoms may include:

  • loss of memory, inability to concentrate and poor sense of time and place;
  • difficulty in finding the right words, or understanding what people are saying;
  • difficulty in completing simple tasks and solving minor problems;
  • mood changes and emotional upsets, sometimes with depression.

It is important that professionals involved with families of children with conditions that include dementia are aware of these aspects of the condition. Great distress can be caused to families if professionals without this knowledge consider such conduct as forgetfulness and mood change as bad or disobedient behaviour. Information about possible dementia in a child as a result of their condition should be given clearly and sensitively to families.

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Medical text written April 2006 by Contact a Family. Approved April 2006 by Dr P Santos, Consultant in Developmental Neuropsychiatry and Neuropharmacology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK.

 

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