Memory complaints, mild cognitive impairment and dementia

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• Dementia symptoms and clear impairment of cognitive capacity are not a part of normal aging.
• One in three individuals over 65 years experiences symptoms of memory loss, but the majority of them do not have a progressive memory disease.
• Even of those in working age, 10–20% experience difficulties with memory or other areas of cognitive functioning.
• Memory disease may begin also with impairment of visual perception, executive functioning or linguistic abilities.

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Aged, Aging, Agnosia, Alzheimer Disease, Apraxias, Delirium, Dementia, Dementia, Vascular, Depression, F00, F01, F02, F03, Hallucinations, Memory, Memory Disorders, Neurology, Paranoid Disorders, Psychiatry, R41.3, mild cognitive impairment, pseudodementia