Dementia

Learn about the definition for this nursing term.

Organic brain syndrome that leads to deterioration of intellectual functioning. It includes personality change, impairment of memory and abstract thinking, poor judgment, and loss of impulse control. May be chronic or acute, and reversible or irreversible.

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