The book presents a comprehensive look at the typical symptoms associated with dementia, current findings on common causes of the disease, and provides essential advice for managing the daily challenges of caring for someone with dementia. Although Alzheimer's disease is the best-known type of dementia, this book also discusses other types of dementia, such as Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal degeneration, and vascular cognitive impairment, and how these conditions frequently develop. Additionally, this book provides a transparent look at the neurological changes that can occur within the brain of a patient with dementia and details how to differentiate between the signs of normal aging and aging with dementia.