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why is depression often mistaken for dementia?

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Depression is always confused with Dementia.

Depression: Loss of interest in activities is called depression

Dementia : This is a group of disorders characterised by impaired brain functions such as judgement and memory loss.

  This confusion is due to the overlapping of symptoms between dementia and depression. They are said to be almost similar.

Common symptoms are memory problems, social with drawl, trouble in concentrating over the things, lack of interest and also those who have depression automatically have higher tendency of getting dementia. These are the common problems which makes depression likely to be confused with dementia.