经常听到有人抱怨家里老人患了“痴呆症”,仔细询问一下,才知道许多人把老年性健忘与痴呆混为一谈。其实,健忘与痴呆是两码事,应该搞清楚,免得给老年人扣上“痴呆症”的帽子,增加不必要的思想员担。一部分老年人十分健忘,东西放过就忘,经常到处乱找;讲过的话忘记了,熟悉的人名字出记不起来,甚至做菜忘记放盐等。这些老年 Often I hear people complaining about “dementia” among elderly people in the family. After careful inquiry, I learned that many people confuse senile amnesia with dementia. In fact, forgetfulness and dementia are two different things. We should make it clear that we should avoid giving the elderly a “dementia” hat and increase unnecessary thinking personnel. Some of the elderly are very forgetful, forget about things left, often find everywhere; forgotten words, people familiar with the name can not remember, and even forget to put salt cooking. These old age