What is dementia?

Please click here to watch an updated version of this film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q-H1-XwCZA

This film explains and defines what dementia is, and how it affects the brain.

The dementia brain tour is a free educational video resource that includes chapters on the brain and how brain cells function, Alzheimer's disease, Posterior Cortical Atrophy, vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, fronto-temporal dementia and other rarer causes of dementia.

The narrator is Dr Anne Corbett, Research Communications Officer at Alzheimer's Society, whose brief is to ensure that dementia research is communicated in a clear and accessible way.

To download a transcript of all of the Dementia Brain Tour, please go to
http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/download_info.php?downloadID=470

If you have found this tool useful please consider donating to our research programme by following this link
https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/xforms_form.php?formID=164

There are more than 750,000 people in the UK affected by dementia with numbers set to rise to 1 million by 2021. More than half of these have Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer's Society is the UK's leading care and research charity for people with dementia and those who care for them.

Support the fight against dementia http://www.alzheimers.org.uk