What is sundown dementia?
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Last updated: Dec 29, 2010
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What is sundown dementia?
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Paula Spencer Scott, senior editor, writes extensively about health and caregiving. A 2011 Met Life Foundation Journalists in Aging fellow, she helped care for both...
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Sundown syndrome isn't a kind of dementia. It's an effect of it. "Sundowning" is a term that describes the onset of confusion and agitation that generally affects people with dementia or cognitive impairment and strikes in the late afternoon or early evening (when the sun goes down, hence the name). Learn more about it here.
