ABSTRACT
The need for early diagnosis of senile dementia is clearly of great importance both to distinguish treatable from non-treatable causes so that treatment regimes may be implemented where appropriate and to allow early implementation of promising treatments before gross behavioural changes have occurred. The problems inherent in any study of early dementia are so extensive, however, that as an area of research it has been largely neglected, with much of the research concerning more advanced “unequivocal” cases.
