What’s the difference between Alzheimer’s and dementia?

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"Alzheimer's disease" and "dementia" are sometimes used interchangeably. What's the difference between them?

Dementia is a loss of thinking, remembering, and reasoning skills that interferes with a person's daily life and activities. Alzheimer's is one type, the most common cause of dementia among older people.

Other types of dementia include frontotemporal disorders, vascular dementia, and Lewy body dementia. All of these types of dementia damage and kill neurons in the brain, which impacts a person's ability to think, but in different ways and with different symptoms.

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