The Alzheimer’s disease is a diseased named after Alois Alzheimer, who ironically died of the disease, and the disease is a senile Dementia. A simply definition of the word would be memory loss. Alzheimer’s is incurable, unstoppable, inevitable, degenerative, and a terminal disease. It is most common in people over the age of sixty-five, but there are rare occasions where it can occur in younger ages. The effect of this disease is still unknown today. Alzheimer’s bears a great burden on not only
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you are yourself. To some, this may seem like a horrible nightmare, but patients with Alzheimer's disease have to live their life with this burden. This is not something that can happen to anyone though, this disease usually affects people around the age of 65. So
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problems and unpredictable behavior. After her death, Dr. Alzheimer noticed changes in her brain tissue, abnormal clumps and tangled bundles of fibers. Since then, this disease is one of the most common dementia in the aging population, bearing Alzheimer's name. Alzheimer disease is a neurodegenerative disorder which shows progressive dementia and it is the fourth most common cause of death. There are clear pathological hallmarks of the disease, mainly in the form of plaques and tangles. Plaques
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Alzheimer’s Disease is a type of dementia, a term for a decrease in mental ability that affects your memory, thinking, and behavior. Alzheimer’s Disease progressively worsens over time. The longer Alzheimer’s is in your system, the more difficult it is to do daily activities. Alzheimer’s affects about 4.5 million Americans. The majority of people that have Alzheimer’s Disease are at least 65 years old. However, Alzheimer’s is not just for the old. 5% of people with Alzheimer’s suffer from early
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Alzheimer’s is becoming common amongst elderly people ranging from ages 65 and older. About 5.3 million of Americans of all ages have this disease (Association A., 2015). Alzheimer’s is a reversible, progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, and eventually the ability to carry out the simplest everyday tasks. This disease develops slowly and worsens over time. Alzheimer’s is a progressive disease, where dementia symptoms gradually worsen over the years. Those with
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Alzheimer's Disease: A Family Dilemma According to the Alzheimer’s Association, “Alzheimer’s is the sixth-leading cause of death in the country and the only cause of death among the top 10 in the United States that cannot be prevented, cured or even slowed” (n.a., 2012, para. 2). This offers little encouragement to family members who must stand helplessly by and watch the deterioration of a loved one. It is no wonder Alzheimer’s is called the family disease. To help families better understand and
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the first case study of a woman with unusual symptoms that included language problems, paranoia, memory loss and unpredictable behavior. In 1906 Alzheimer named the condition “pre-senile dementia”, but his colleague later renamed the disorder as Alzheimer’s disease (AD). During the years that Dr. Alzheimer studied dimentia he was able to prepare over 200 slides from the brain of a middle-aged woman who had died in a Frankfurt Germany asylum. These slides of brain material, which were once believed
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Where did the name, Alzheimer's come from Sometimes called Alzheimer disease or Alzheimer's the origin of the term dates back to 1906 when Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German physician presented a case history before a medical meeting about a 51-year-old female who suffered from a rare brain disorder. What is Alzheimer's Wikipedia says that Alzheimer's accounts for 60% to 70% of cases of dementia. It is a Neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and gets worse over time. The disease and
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This article provides a brief introduction of Alzheimer’s Dementia and present two conversations involving the participants with and without Alzheimer’s Dementia. Specifically, the authors discuss the concept of ‘order’ in conversation and the central importance of interactional monitoring. Alzheimer’s Dementia (DAT) is characterized by multiple cognitive deficits that represent a significant reduction in premorbid functioning, and a significant impairment in occupational or social functioning. A
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Alzheimer's Disease ● Definition-Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, neurodegenerative disease that occurs when nerve cells in the brain die. ● Signs-Memory loss that affects job skills, difficulty performing familiar tasks, problems with language, disorientation to time and place, poor or decreased judgment, problems with abstract thinking, misplacing things, changes in mood or behavior, changes in personality, loss of initiative. ● Treatment-specific treatment will be determined
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