4. Dementia
Dementia is a growing problem in the developed world, given the fact that people are tending to live much longer than they ever have before.
Advances in modern medicine have meant that people with a range of illnesses and impairments have much longer life expectancies, but with this longer life comes the increased risk of the development of other problems, with dementia being top of that list of potential problems.
Like a knock-on effect of health concerns, dementia can cause aphasia to develop in a person, making the experience of living with this illness all the more distressing for the sufferer and all the more sad for the sufferer’s family, friends and close ones.
The confusion and lack of understanding that a person with dementia endures is only likely to be worsened by something which stops them from being understood, which is exactly what aphasia can do. Dementia is up there with the most common causes of aphasia.