What is "pseudosenility"

Pseudosenility also reversible dementia is a condition where older people is on a state of memory loss, confusion, or disorientation that may have a cause other than the ordinary aging process. Generally, the term "reversible dementia" is used to describe most cases. A more specific term "Pseudodementia" is referring to "behavioral changes that resembler those of the progressive degenerative dementias, but which are attributable to so-called functional causes".

The New York Times reports that illnesses such as the flu and hydrocephalus, as well as side-effects to common medications, can produce symptoms in the elderly that are difficult to distinguish from ordinary dementia caused by aging. However, if the real cause of the effects is caught early enough, the effects can be reversed. According to studies cited in Cunha (1990), approximate 10% to 30% of patients who have exhibited symptoms of dementia might have a treatable or reversible pathologic process to some extent.