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• Stages: Dementia typically follows a progressive, worsening path categorized as early, middle, and late-stage, requiring increased care.
• Types: Major types include Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia (often after a stroke), Lewy body dementia, and frontotemporal dementia. Mixed dementia is also common.
• Risk Factors: The primary risk factor is age, with the likelihood of developing it doubling every five years after age 65. Other factors include genetics, cardiovascular health, head injuries, and lifestyle.
• Prognosis: Currently, most dementia types have no cure and are progressive, meaning they worsen over time. Management focuses on supporting quality of life through care and, in some cases, medication to manage symptoms.

• Symptoms: Early signs include memory loss (especially short-term), difficulty concentrating, trouble finding words, confusion about time/place, and mood swings. As it progresses, individuals may experience hallucinations, behavioral changes, and loss of independence

  

In this episode, we look at how falling affects older people and how to prevent falls. This episode talks with older people who have had a fall, what led to it and how to prevent this from happening again.

This innovative series of podcast created by Radio Sangam working in collaboration with Age UK and another fifty local organisations look at what affects older people. The project was developed after extensive research with older people about what their priorities are. Older people came to the conclusion that social media is a bolt on and social media is not the only way that older people want to access services and service information. Older people came to the conclusion that they wanted a radio service which features topics that are about them, created by them for their own peers.