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Advanced Dementia. 1  Advanced dementia is a leading cause of death in the United States. 2  Features include profound memory deficits (e.g., inability to recognize family), minimal verbal communication, loss of ambulatory abilities, the inability to perform activities of daily living, and urinary and fecal incontinence.
Other disorders leading to symptoms of dementia include: 1  Frontotemporal dementia (also known as Pick's disease) 2  Normal pressure hydrocephalus (when excess cerebrospinal fluid accumulates in the brain)  Posterior cortical atrophy (resembles changes seen in Alzheimer's disease, but in a different part of the brain)