Question: As people are their own individual, if they were to have dementia will it affect them differently to someone else, as their nerves and brain might react differently to another?

Nadine Mirza answered on 5 Nov 2018:

This is an excellent and well thought question.
It’s both a yes and no kind of answer.
So basically, dementia has so many different symptoms. Most people know about memory loss but there’s loads of other things. Personality and behaviour change, changing preferences, loss of skills and ability, paranoia, anxiety, hallucinations- there’s so much that can or can’t happen.
How we’ve lived our lives and the nature of dementia can impact which symptoms we show and how many. Lifestyle choices and genetics play a part in if you get dementia, what kind it will be, and how severe. And then, because every person is different, how we might respond to these symptoms varies.
For example, two people could experience memory loss and forget that their carer has given them medication. Same symptoms.
But. One of them might respond by accusing the carer of being bad at their job, of getting angry or upset. Another might get scared and feel like they can’t trust their carer and simply grow quieter and more isolated. So the responses are quite different.
People can end up hallucinating because of dementia but they hallucinate different things depending on their individual differences.
I hope that answers the question (which again-was such a good one!)