Finding Out Early On About Alzheimers

Alzheimers is an extremely debilitating disease. Presently, there are no known cure or treatment for this irreversible threat to a mature person's mental and personal health. Once a person has been diagnosed with Alzheimers, the duration and course of the disease will vary from five up to twenty years. Within the course of the disease, the sufferer will go through a whole range of deterioration from slight short term memory loss to the loss of normal bodily functions that cause complications and infections that then turns into death. While the...

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Living With Alzheimer's Disease

When someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, those around should not think that it is the end of the world. The best thing to do is help the one who is suffering from it until the person dies. There are drugs in the market that can help ease the pain but not reverse the process or stop the disease from spreading. The only thing it can do is slow down the process that could buy enough time until a cure has been found. Family members should give this or hire a caregiver to do that when no one is able to take care of the person. In time,...

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Keeping people with Alzheimer's busy

Keeping people with Alzheimer's busy Alzheimer's disease is considered the 7th leading cause of death in the United States in 2004. The death toll continues to rise every year. The disease is the third most costly in the U.S. Heart disease and cancer are the first and second most costly respectively.  It is recorded that there 24 million people with dementia worldwide, the figure will more than double by 2040. Alzheimer's is a progressive disease that is irreversible with no known cause or cure. The disease affects two major types of abilities....

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Activities for people with Alzheimer

Activities for people with Alzheimer Alzheimer’s is one disease that people dread to be diagnosed with. Who can blame them? It is one of the most debilitating disease known to man and it affects not only one area or one system but all. Of course, since it is a progressive disease, effects on the various systems of the body does not happen at one time. As the disease progress, the effects become wide-range. Alzheimer’s disease is perhaps the best-known disease under Dementia, a disorder that affects the mental processes. It is characterized...

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Finding caregivers for people with Alzheimer’s disease

One of the most dreaded diseases in old age is Alzheimer’s disease. Although unlike cancer and heart problem, this is actually not fatal. In fact, people with Alzheimer’s can live for a long time with proper care. That is actually the problem most of the time. With Alzheimer’s disease, the patient need to be taken cared of all the time. This is because the memory loss will often render the patient incapable of thinking and reasoning. Some will even forget how to do the simplest of tasks, like brushing their teeth and even eating with a spoon...

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Treating Alzheimer's By Play Theatre

Many Alzheimer's patients newly diagnosed after entering the phases of stress. They realized it was memory lose, while they know that if it has been like that, then it will no longer be able to care for themselves. The research team from Chicago, to test new ideas through theater games without a script than affect the health of patient Alzheimer. "Improvisation...

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Detect the Alzheimer's By Blood Test Methods

A new blood test method developed by researchers at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) can be used to detect the symptoms produced by Alzheimer's disease is much faster than before. Alzheimer's is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects higher cognitive functions, including memory, logic reasoning, and so on. This is...

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