Mental Disorder - Under 65

Mental disorder is a term that can be used to cover mental deterioration more commonly referred to as dementia, plus other more specific conditions that need more specialised care.

Dementia is a deterioration of an individual’s mental capacity, leading to cognitive impairment. While some cases of confusion or dementia may be temporary and can be treated often, for example, following depression, there are many kinds of diagnoses where it may be possible to stabilise, but not cure, the problem.

These conditions include Alzheimer’s disease, pre-senile dementia (including Huntington’s chorea and Pick’s disease), dementia associated with Parkinson’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, vascular dementia and multi-infarct dementia, Creutzfeld Jacob disease, Down’s syndrome and AIDS related dementia.

There are different degrees of dementia, ranging from mild dementia to, for example, extreme Alzheimer’s disease. Homes tend to cater for set levels of dementia, so it is important when choosing a home to ensure that the dementia needs of a particular person will be properly met in a particular home.

More specific mental disorders will include conditions such as bi-polar disorder, personality disorder, acute stress and depression. For these type of specific mental disorders, it will be important to choose a specialised care home, where an individual’s care needs will received the specialist attention required..

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