Depression, delirium and age related memory problem has got the very
similar symptom as dementia such as confusion, speech difficulties (short
term), anxiety, short term memory loss, lack of concentration and other mild cognitive
impairment. An individual living with dementia may also show confusion, lack of
motivation, memory loss, difficulty to understandings and poor judgement which
is same symptom of depression, delirium, melancholy and age related memory
problem. Therefore it is very easy to mistake one for another as symptoms are
same. To identify main cause, one have to rule out other causes.
