Medications can’t cure most types of dementia, which isn’t a specific disease but a group of symptoms associated with declining mental function that interferes with your daily life and makes you dependent on care. They can help slow the decline in its early stages, however, and sedatives are often prescribed in moderate or severe cases. But medications aren’t the only means to help dementia sufferers manage their symptoms. Activation – physical, social and cognitive – is just as important, if not more so. Activation can take many forms. It could be assuming minor household and garden chores or…