Tam Cummings,
Gerontologist, looks at how dementia systematically assaults the four lobes of
the brain (temporal, frontal, occipital and parietal), the order in which
dementia moves through the brain and how the damage in each lobe causes
specific behaviors or loss of abilities. This ability to recognize the
connection between deterioration in the brain’s lobes to behaviors and
abilities helps family and professional caregivers better understand how far
the disease has advanced and what they should anticipate next.