There is no question that cognitive dysfunction represents one of the greatest health problems affecting the elderly. We would urge researchers to be sure of their classification system before they proceed to open the gates to a treatment that may have questionable value as to the existence of that disorder. The precise causes of cognitive disorders remain a mystery. A proper understanding of the disorder would be more effective in developing a treatment. The treatments available today do not eliminate the cause.
Memory loss is a persistent phenomenon during aging.
Removing the symptoms may provide palliative care, but what is really needed is a cure for a totally disabling disorder of the elderly. The future will tell us if the answer is there. Neurobiology of Aging. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society . Psychotic symptoms and the longitudinal course of senile dementia of the Alzheimer type.