| Alzheimers disease is a form of dementia which | | | | There is not a single special test for Alzheimers, but |
| affects middle-aged and older people. It is a | | | | invariably the correct diagnosis is achieved by ruling |
| progressive disease that slowly kills the victims nerve | | | | out other causes of memory loss,for example: |
| cells in the brain. Alzheimers is a rather complex | | | | Parkinson's disease, minor strokes, or depression. This |
| disease that seems to be caused by several | | | | disease normally rears it's ugly head after the age of |
| influences. It is the most common type of dementia, | | | | 60 or so, and the risk gets higher with age |
| accounting for roughly seventy percent of diagnosed | | | | progression. All the same, it must be remembered |
| cases, and it knows no boundries, being spread | | | | that Alzheimers disease is not neccersarily a normal |
| across different cultures and affecting both males | | | | part of the aging process. Alzheimers can be |
| and females in equal measure. Alzheimers disease can | | | | described as the death of the mind before the Body, |
| be extremely stressful for the victims family, who | | | | and as such is a very difficult and depressing |
| very often find themselves being in the front line | | | | condition for any family to have to deal with. |
| when it comes to providing care and support. It | | | | Alzheimers is reckoned to be a fatal disease, but the |
| ought to be remembered that the family member or | | | | usual cause of death is normally another illness (like |
| members doing the caring will also need plenty of | | | | pneumonia) which can develop as a complication in an |
| support. The care of a Alzheimers patient is quite a | | | | individual already severely weakened by Alzheimers. |
| challenge because the decline is slow and | | | | The treatment of Alzheimers Disease is still relatively |
| unpredictable and can progress at a different pace. If | | | | young, but researchers are veryconfident that the |
| it happens that Alzheimers is diagnosed, seek out any | | | | time is not too far away when medications will |
| local services and aid groups that are available from | | | | become available that will be able to successfully |
| your doctor's surgery or inquire at your local hospital. | | | | treat the symptoms of Azheimers. |