The term ‘dementia’ is an umbrella term used to describe the symptoms of cognitive impairment. And within the dementia umbrella, there are many different variations – Alzheimer’s included. Most of people don’t realize that all dementia is not Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s Disease. This is the most common type of dementia. I like to describe Alzheimer’s as a slow process of going backwards in time. While it begins with short term memory loss (and thus, repeating oneself- because