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Signs and Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease By Connie Limon |
| Friday, March 6, 2009 |
One of the most common causes of dementia is Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's is loss of intellectual and social abilities severe enough to interfere with daily functioning. Dementia occurs when the damaged brain tissue healthy. Memory and mental abilities steadily decline.
Alzheimer's disease usually develops in people 65 or older. There is no cure for Alzheimer's disease, however, investigations are progressing. There are treatments available to improve the quality of life for some people with Alzheimer's disease.
The signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease include:
• Increasing and persistent forgetfulness: At the beginning of Alzheimer's disease that a person can experience periods of forgetfulness, especially of recent events or simple. This forgetfulness persists and worsens. People with Alzheimer's disease routinely misplace things, often at odd or "illogical" places. We often forget the names, and may eventually forget the names of family members and everyday objects.
• Difficulties with abstract thinking: people who suffer from Alzheimer's disease may have trouble balancing your checkbook and can progress to trouble recognizing the numbers.
• Loss of the decision: the solution of common problems of everyday life, such as knowing what to do if food on the stove is burning ever more difficult, eventually impossible. There is greater difficulty in doing things that require planning, decision making and sentencing.
• Difficulty performing familiar tasks: routine tasks that require sequential steps, such as the kitchen increasingly difficult as the disease progresses.
• personality changes: changes may occur in mood. People with Alzheimer's may begin to be distrustful of others, are anxious or aggressive, show tenacity and social withdrawal.
It is not a normal part of aging to forget the names of familiar people and objects, and can be a sign of Alzheimer's disease. It is normal to forget the names of people you rarely see, but forget the names of relatives of people he sees every day is not normal.
Alzheimer's disease is progressive, degenerative brain disease that causes more than simple forgetfulness from time to time. Finally, Alzheimer's disease causes irreversible mental that destroys a person's ability to remember, reason, learn and imagine.
The progression of the disease differs from person to person. Once diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, for eight years is the average time until death. Some people, however, live more than a decade with the disease. Survival begins to decline three years after diagnosis.
Source: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
Disclaimer: This article is not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any type of health problem. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Always consult your health care provider about any health problem and especially before beginning any exercise routine.
This article is FREE to publish with resource box. Article written 3-2007.
Author: Connie Limon, Trilogy Field Representative. Visit http://smalldogs2.com/NutritionHealthHub and http://www.camelotarticles.com |
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