Presenile dementia refers a wide range of disorders that affect thinking, memory and other types of cognitive functioning in an individual under the age of 65 years. Though presenile dementia is mostly prevalent among people over 65-70 years of age, sometimes many younger people are also diagnosed with dementia and this severely interfere their quality of life.

At the earlier stages, symptom-wise presenile dementia is no different than general dementia problem. Only one difference lies and that that is presenile dementia occurs at much earlier ages. Since it is occurred at younger ages than it is usually occurred at older ages, the symptoms are mostly underestimated.

Common symptoms of presenile dementia include memory loss such as forgetting events or appointments, recurrent confusions about places, people and events, difficulty in finding appropriate words while explaining something, reduced ability to make judgment, disorganized, noticeable change in behavior and personality, uncertainty feelings, etc.

Since younger people are mostly affected by presenile dementia, it brings severe impact over the workplace area. So it is important to bring workplace adjustments to improve the management of the disease. It helps the disease to slowly progress over time. The essential management is - decreased work hours, having co-workers or work assistance, need of assistance to make potential plans for the futures.

It is important that the individuals suffering from presenile dementia should learn how to deal with stress in addition to improve the general ability to make decision. Self care is mandatory, so it needs support from the closed relatives, or friends.

Till date, not enough data has been produced in the support of the exact reason for developing presenile dementia. Scientists are working hard to find out the root cause of this disorder, which will help them to find out the possible treatment for presenile dementia in order to reverse or prevent the disease.