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Progressive Alzheimer Disease |
| Sunday, July 19, 2009 |
Alzheimers disease gradually develops into dementia, which starts a progressive stage and begins rapidly to deteriorate brain tissues, nerve cells, dendrites, etc. Alzheimer’s disease can affect anyone over the age 65 and in rare instances; the condition will affect people earlier. The condition to date has affected more than 4 million United States citizens. The figure is growing. In addition, millions of people in the UK are diagnosed each year of Alzheimer’s disease. When a person has Alzheimer’s disease, it is important to learn a few helpful steps to take care of your loved one. Caregivers are instructed as well to take measures to protect their own health.
How to care for patients with Alzheimer’s disease
Be sure to keep their living environment safe and comfortable. Lock up the cleaning supplies, medications, anything that could be harmful to them. Take the mirrors down; sometimes when they look into the mirror they are seeing someone they don’t know and it is scary. Keep your loved one as active as possible. Activities and exercise will help the sleep disorder they sometimes get. Always make your loved one feel secure and safe at all times.
How to decide when treatment is needed
Alzheimer’s disease sometimes will progress slowly making one think that it is just a normal way of life. Always see your health care provider as soon as you notice changes occurring. The sooner you see your health care provider the better for all. If the health care provider can diagnose the disease at the beginning stage, they can treat it quicker and prolong the progress of Alzheimer’s disease.
Alzheimer’s is a disease that slows the brain functions, since it deteriorates the dendrites, tissues, nerve cells, nerve fibers, and so on. The disease gradually kills a person otherwise healthy. Alzheimer’s slowly develops as dementia, which starts the progressive stage. At this time, it begins to become frustrating for caregivers.
Alzheimer patients will play in their own feces, smear feces on the walls, etc. The patients will wander, which is why at nursing homes the patients are placed in lock down, or designated areas.
Alzheimer’s disease is a baffling cluster of disorders. The condition forces a person back in time, until finally the person is at the age of an infant child. The person will fear mirrors, darkness, etc. To help relieve their fears nursing homes will keep night-lights in the room.
In few instances, loved ones will deal with Alzheimer’s disease. The family learns adapt to the Alzheimer’s lifestyle. For example, caregivers will take care of the Alzheimer patient in their home, which forces them to adjust to a new life. The care provider must leave furniture in one area at all times, hide harmful chemicals, remove mirrors, and keep the area lit. In addition, the care provider must constantly watch the patient’s behaviors, action, etc. Taking care of an Alzheimer patients is an around the clock duty.
Alzheimer’s disease causes memory loss. The person will forget short-term details, yet will recall things that happen to them fifteen years earlier. For example, if a loved one comes to visit the patient, leaves, and returns in a few minutes the patient may forget.
Alzheimer’s disease puts the patient at great or even grave risks. For instance, one woman with Alzheimer’s disease placed a newspaper in the oven, turned on the oven, and failed to remember her actions. Alzheimer’s causes a person to forget often, which is why the patient should not be left alone.
If you have a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease, we encourage you to take action now by searching for helpful insight to guide you through your long journey. |
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Progressing in Alzheimer How it progresses |
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Alzheimer’s disease in few instances will progress slowly. In such cases, people will believe that the person is experiencing a normal way of life. Since the disease silently creeps in, it is best to visit your healthcare provider immediately. As soon as you notice changes in behaviors, speech, etc, it is time to seek help. In fact, if you have a family history of the condition, it is wise to continue frequent checkups. If the doctor can detect the disease at an early stage, likely he can take measures to prolong the disease.
How to handle diagnostics
If you doctor notes Alzheimer’s disease early, stay tuned since what you are about to learn will threaten your emotions. You will likely have many questions, which it is important that you ask your doctor. Do not feel like you are ignorant, rather ask questions, and learn willingly. Make a list of the questions you may have forgotten to take with you on the next visit. It is wise to remain open, as well as honest about the disease. Sometimes the information you hear will hurt, yet to learn you must accept the pain.
Once you have answers, it is time to take steps. You will need precise details of any changes. The list of changes should be written down, since it will help your doctor make wise decisions in treatment. In addition, the changes will help your doctor notice the stages, as well as the speed of progression.
How do I note changes?
Look for signs of memory loss. For instance, if the patient is telling you of his or her memories twenty years earlier, yet he or she cannot recall details about ten minutes earlier you have change. The change is a tale tells that the patient’s condition is progressing. If the patient finds it difficult to handle small tasks, it is likely the disease is progressing to the next stage.
As Alzheimer’s disease progresses to dementia, the patient will find it difficult to dress alone. The patient will forget how to button or zip his or her pants, dress, etc. The patient may put shirts on backwards. If you notice such changes, take notes and show your doctor upon the next visit. Again, the notes will help your doctor decide, which treatment is best for your loved one. In time, you will need to make painful decisions.
How Alzheimer’s affect you
In time you will need to make decisions that will cause you pain. For instance, as the patient progresses to the third stage of Alzheimer’s, he or she may become incompetent. Throughout the stages, the person will shift moods and may become aggressive or violent. In some instances the patient will kick, choke, pull hair, punch, etc, which you will need to learn steps in how to protect you without harming the patient. In time you may have to place your loved one in a nursing home.
Each day as the disease progresses, your pain will increase. You will watch your loved one-throw feces, fear water, fear darkness, and finally stop eating, talking, etc. In many instances at the final stage the patient will sit and stair aimlessly out the window, or at a wall. The person at this stage is readying for the ultimate symptom of Alzheimer’s, which is death.
To date, experts have not found a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. However, experts are looking more into the condition, searching effortlessly in an attempt to find a cure.
Alzheimer’s disease is claiming millions of minds annually. If you have a family history, take care and visit your healthcare provider frequently, since Alzheimer’s kill. |
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Preventing Alzheimer How to take steps to prevent disease |
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Doctors’ themselves are taking Vitamin E, lipoid acids, Ginkgo Biloba, Vitamin C, and low doses of ibuprofen. According to the experts is a way to reduce risks that could lead to heart disease, strokes, etc, which can also cause Alzheimer’s disease. Taking acetyl-L carnitine or ALC up to 2000 milligrams per day can also help reduce dementia, heart attack, strokes, or Alzheimer’s disease. Fish oil, aspirin, fruits, vegetables, and non-steroid remedies that are anti-inflammatory can also help reduce your risks.
One of the rules of thumbs we all should keep in mind is to take preventive steps to prevent disease. According to experts, it’s possible to delay heart disease, stroke, and dementia (ADRD) for a number of years.
Mitochondria are a small body in cells that are discovered in cytoplasm. Cytoplasm produces in nearly all living cells, which this element produces enzymes. Enzymes are helpful for promoting the metabolic by converting food into energy. According to experts mitochondria is behind the majority of disorders and disease. That is mitochondria produces energy, which breakdowns have lead to a variety of disease.
Amino acids are another link to dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and various other illnesses. The constituents of protein contain several amino, which are vital to the living cells. Amino acids transmit fatty acids, which arrive at mitochondria cells. The ultimate purpose of this source is to generate energy.
One of the supplements available in Europe that has helped delay Alzheimer’s disease is ALC, or acetyl-L carnitine. The supplements were researched thoroughly. Studies have shown that ALC can promote energy, as well as reducing aging signs. In fact, ALC has proven to improve cognition, as well as memory.
NOTE: Alzheimer’s disease may be linked to increases of aluminum, which targets the brain. The metallic elements form as silvery white, malleable ductiles.
ALC has proven to slow Alzheimer’s progressive condition. Studies have shown that more than 200 case studies showed evident signs of improvement of memory. In addition, the patients were capable of speaking fluent after taking ALC.
After carefully studying ALC the supplements has proven to improve symptoms, emerging from dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, heard disease and so on. In addition, doctors recommend ALC as well as the reduction of alcohol.
ALC is becoming a popular solution to Alzheimer’s disease as well as many other illnesses. New studies showed that maintaining phosphatidylserine is the start to better health. Lecithin works in harmony with phosphatidylserine, which produces in the brain naturally.
According to experts taking 100 milligrams of phosphatidylserine around 3 times, each day can dramatically improve memory. You want to look for natural preserves when seeking phosphatidylserine.
The main goal is to keep blood clots from occurring in the blood vessels. To start you will need to maintain a balance of platelets. Platelets are blood particles, which involve it self with blood clotting. The small colorless platelets form like a disk and carries through the blood in bulks. Maintaining platelets require a balance of alcohol consumption. Experts state that drinking one to three drinks weekly is ok, yet if you drink higher volumes of alcohol, it could put you at risk of various diseases. In fact, when alcohol is controlled it has proven that one glass of wine daily or alcohol-based drink can lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease, cancer, and so on.
Doctors also claim that vegetables and fruits, as well as exercise can reduce cholesterol. Cholesterol is solid compounds within the blood. Cholesterol stores steroid (sterol) alcohol, which is found in fats, as well as various other constituents. When cholesterol increases, it can cause diabetes, dementia, gallstones, heart disease, atherosclerosis, and so on. To maintain cholesterol, exercise is essential. |
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Pick Disease and Alzheimer |
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Various types of dementia stem from Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s is a disease of the brain whereas tissues are damaged and finally destroyed. The nerve cells are also diminished. Pick’s disease is uncommon. The disease progresses speedily, yet it only affects a particular area of the brain. The symptoms emerge from this disease include inability to maintain hygiene, memory loss, negligence, indifference, etc.
Pick’s disease can develop into Alzheimer’s disease. As well, around 20% of those diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease will develop Alzheimer’s disease eventually.
In addition, Alzheimer’s may develop from “Normal-Pressure Hydrocephalus.” The condition is caused from development of fluids emerging from cerebrospinal. Cerebrospinal is the part of the brain and spinal cord. If the fluids do not naturally reabsorb, it can cause a type of dementia to emerge.
The condition is deemed normal-pressure, since the fluids build and apply pressure to the tissues in the brain. The condition will cause abnormal and unusual symptoms to develop. For instance, the patient will incapacitate the mental functions, which affects the involvement of urine, which include incontinence, or the inability to control urine. The condition also causes unusual symptoms to emerge, such as wide-leg movement, or walking. The patient will move slowly and appear to loose balance.
During early stages if the patient is diagnosed the doctor may use “Drainage tubes” to remove excess fluids. The tubes are called shunts. Doctors have found that removing excessive fluids improves various symptoms, excluding the mental functionality.
Dementia is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease, which Alzheimer’s may occur if the patient is diagnosed with “Creutzfedt-Jacob disease.” Pick’s disease also subjects a person to Alzheimer’s disease. Creutzfedt-Jacob however is a disease that emerges from infections. The rare progressive disease coming from infection will often cause interruptions of proteins, which emerge from prion. The particle lacks the nucleic acids that the body needs naturally to grow smoothly. The disease is thought to be the leading cause of Creutzfedt disease, as well as other diseases.
Creutzfedt-Jacob disease will rapidly destroy the brain, which the ultimate action is death. Prion spread is the leading cause of this dementia; as well, experts believe that the infections may arise from eating infected meats, such as beef. To date there is no cure for Creutzfedt-Jacob disease. Creutzfedt-Jacob disease has lead to the most severe cases of dementia.
Dementia also emerges from HIV, or AIDS. Like Alzheimer’s disease when dementia is present in AIDS patients, it will subtly creep in symptoms and gradually progress. Once symptoms develop, the patient will find it difficult to think.
The slowness interrupts the patient’s ability to show expression. In addition, the patient may find it difficult to concentrate. The person may feel indifferent, as well find it difficult to move around. Gradually the muscles will weaken, which affects coordination.
The only known treatment of dementia when AIDS is the cause is to treat the patient with zidovudine.
Another type of dementia includes the condition known as pugilistica. The condition is an inveterate disorder that progressively causes traumatic brain disease (encephalopathy) to emerge. The condition is commonly caused from recurring brain injuries, yet other causes are considered.
If you or someone you love has Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, it is wise to keep the person in familiar surroundings and around familiar faces. Changing patterns will only cause severe interruptions. In addition, the patient should be kept in a safe and stable environment. Plan for the patient and help him or her keep those plans.
Alzheimer’s disease has affected over 4 million United States American citizens. The disease is currently affected millions of other people worldwide. |
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Phosphate Acids and Alzheimer |
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Alzheimer’s disease creates dementia in time. The disease deteriorates tissues, cells, and gradually destroys the entire markup of the brain, and Central Nervous System. (CNS)
To help you understand how phosphate acids may be a factor behind Alzheimer’s disease we can consider what the purpose of phosphorus produces. Phosphorus is acids that we get from natural foods, such as cheese, milk, meat, nuts, legumes, cereals, fish, poultry, etc. The acids function primarily to strengthen the bones and teeth, as well as producing energy.
Now according to medical experts genetics play a part in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Genes house various elements, which include nuclei cells. The cells are crucial rudiments of the living cells. The living cells encase eukaryotic cells, as well as masses of protoplasm. In this region, our chromosomes are stored, which controls the growth of cells and reproduction. Eukaryotic cells make up nuclei and organelles, produces mitochondrion. The small body of cells is housed within cytoplasm, which is where enzymes are produced. Enzymes control proteins through biochemical reactions that are produced by the living cells. Enzymes then promote the metabolic by allowing it to convert food into energy.
As we discussed earlier, phosphate acids produce energy. Now, if genes are a part of the problem, then we must consider all elements of the human makeup before determining its causes. Phosphate acids form the nucleic acids, which is where DNA is stored. Deoxyribonucleic cells are also stored in this region. Of course, insufficient, or overloads of such acid alone may not explain Alzheimer’s disease, but it surely helps us to see that it does play a part in the cause. Now I am willing to challenge DNA and RNA, simply because it does not make up the components that deteriorate. I am talking about the central nervous system. Brain. The disease is normally progressive, which it starts to deteriorate the brain rapidly.
Recently, I was told that Alzheimer’s disease takes the person back mentally, i.e. the person will recall the nice days of their youth. Accordingly, Alzheimer’s may not have as severe symptoms as doctors believe, since if the mind is flashing back, part of the problem with memory, is consumption. Time will tell.
According to experts, Alzheimer’s disease develops into dementia, which is a progressive condition of the brain that tears down the tissues and the nerves. The never cells are chief functions of the central nervous system (CNS), which the cells consist of cell bodies. The cell bodies function with dendrites and axon. Axon and dendrites surround it self by myelinated nerves or myelin sheath. The nerve layers are insulators. When myelin sheath is injured, or interrupted it can lead to multiple sclerosis, since the nerve impulses are impaired. Myelin sheath is also known as medullary sheath.
When the nerve impulses are impaired, the system will fail to signal synapse, which the gaps are between nerve endings that junction with fibers and affect the muscles, organs, and glands.
Breakdown in the system continues to interrupt the body and mind, since neurotransmitters fail to correspond with acetylcholine. Serotonin, as well as dopamine, and endorphins are affected as well. The condition continues to deteriorate the processes of gamma-aminobutyric acids, which affects norepineprhine. At this state, the nerve impulses are unable to work in conjunction with fibers and nerve ends, which the condition finally reaches the central nervous system and the spinal cord.
Once the central nervous system is affected, the lobes within the brain begin to falter. The frontal lobe where the intellectual functions, personality, and the motor speech reside is impaired, which starts the process of rapid progression. |
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Mind Disease and Alzheimer |
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Mind disease, such as Alzheimer’s is said to arise from abnormal conditions within amyloid proteins. The primarily disease targets the Caucasian race, yet other races are not excluded. New studies are underway, which is leading experts closer to discovering the cause of Alzheimer’s, yet experts are continuing to study apolilipoproteins and its link to the disease. Apo E or apolilipoproteins is carefully considered, since E4 grades have shown enormous signs of the disease Alzheimer. The degenerative brain disease is the cause of destroying the nerve cells. The condition starts slow and gradually begins to develop symptoms.
Tissues are damaged when Alzheimer’s is present, which breaks down nerve cells and finally starts to destroy the Central Nervous System. (CNS) The main nervous system is the root of the cerebral canal. The entire structure makes up the spinal cord and four lobes that reside within the brain. The lobes include the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, and the occipital lobe. The lobes are where we get our personality, senses, intellect, etc.
According to experts once amyloid-proteins reach the CNS and the brain, it begins to deteriorate the entire CNS and brain, affecting the frontal and temporal lobes. Each lobe within the brain works in conjunction with the diencephalons. Diencephalons rest within the central area of the brain stem.
Diencephalons links to thalamus, as well as hypothalamus, the two join and shapes in the form of an egg. The chemicals and/or substances collect in the form of gray matter, which rests beneath cerebral hemispheres in the brain. The purpose of thalamus is to send sensory, which stimulates body temperature, pain and feelings to the surface layers of the kidney, brain, cortex, and so on. When Alzheimer is present, the sensory is affected, as well as stimulus, which makes one wonder if Alzheimer’s disease is not causing a decline in this area. The area makes up the part of the brain, which includes the frontal lobe, intellectual mind, and involves itself with the psychological process of thinking, reasoning, etc. Hypothalamus also controls involuntary functions, respiration, emotional, temperature, blood pressure, etc, which is also affected when Alzheimer’s disease is present.
We see that if Alzheimer’s is declining hypothalamus, as well as thalamus and diencephalons, it will cause problems, especially since the disease is hitting the brain stem. Diencephalons join to form nerve fibers, which are at the outer layers of the brainstem, also known as the Pons Varolii. Diencephalons rest in the middle of the medulla oblongata also, which is at the lower region of the brain. This is where the vertebrate connects to the Medulla and the spinal cord. The Medulla controls the involuntary vital actions, which includes the heart and lungs.
Now, if the CNS, spinal cord, cerebral, medulla, etc, is disturbed it obviously appears that Alzheimer’s disease is an illnesses that may be caused from some chemical that destroys tissues and cells.
Since the central brain stores the frontal lobes, and linking lobes the peduncles are affected, which accordingly poses questions, since the peduncles is where the intellectual functions are stored. The condition Alzheimer’s disease the intellectual functions. Once Alzheimer’s disease targets this area, it causes memory loss, senile tangles, etc.
The conditions that mark Alzheimer’s disease make up a number that outreaches experts’ means of understanding, yet the factors in between makes it clear that a connection is present.
Alzheimer’s disease is a medical disorder that causes dementia to arise. The degenerative disease affects the brain, which causes dementia, more specifically as a person ages. Dementia will tear down the cognitive thought process, intellectual functions, and so on, until finally it destroys the person. |
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Loved Ones with Alzheimer How to care for your loved one |
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In instances when loved ones deal with Alzheimer’s disease, the family must learn to change their lifestyle to accommodate everyone. For instance, if your loved one is cared for in your home, it is smart to keep the furniture in the same location at all times. The action can help your loved one feel comfortable. It may become frustrating for those who enjoy moving their furniture around; yet if you move even one chair, the loved one could accidentally fall.
At the start, Alzheimer’s disease will affect the loved one, which mild symptoms may appear. If you notice memory loss, it may be likely that your loved one is heading toward dementia. Dementia is the progressive stage of Alzheimer’s disease.
At the first stage of Alzheimer's disease, your loved one may drift mentally in and out of time. The loved one may find it difficult to recall long-term details, and may even forget short-term names, numbers, etc. The memory loss may affect the caregiver, since the patient will start to develop behavior patterns that change often, such as aggression, passive, aggression. The loved one may forget their location as well.
Once the disease develops, driving can become a challenge. The person may take a short trip, which turns out to be a long travel. The person may head off to a destination he or she has been to a hundred times, yet the person may loose memory, which causes him or her to get lost.
Your loved one may even find it difficult to recall things that happen ten minutes early, however the patient may recall details of something that took place five years earlier. The condition, Alzheimer’s seems to affect short-term memory and gradually works it way to damage the long-term memory.
Alzheimer’s patients have a hard time remembering short-term details. The long-term details are carved in their mind, which often the patient will recall happy events. Let the patient take pleasure in his or her lovely memories. The patient is already robbed of his or her short-term mind.
Besides memory loss, Alzheimer’s disease will affect care. For instance, the person may become aggressive when asked to take a bath. If the patient is not monitored, he or she may refuse to bathe. In some instances, a patient may take a bath, yet feel frightened of the water. The patient may think that the water will damage their skin. They may even feel as though they are drowning.
Alzheimer’s disease develops into dementia. Alzheimer’s disease usually starts slow, but will progress degenerative symptoms as it develops into dementia.
This is the time to stay on your toes, since your loved one may feel angry. The caregiver may be the target of that anger, which the patient does not realize what he or she is doing. Sometimes the loved one may feel angry at the caregiver, especially if the provider spends a lot of time with the patient. In some instances, your patient may view you as a mean and nasty person. Do not take offense, since this person is striking out at a disease that is robbing them of life.
How is Alzheimer’s disease treated?
Presently, a few medications available assist with treating the condition. The medications can help make the patients life easier. Since no cure is available, doctors are constantly looking for answers, and will often-prescribed medications that have proven to help patients with Alzheimer's disease.
What happens when the condition worsens
as the condition progresses, the patient will slowly sink into his or her own arena. At this stage, the patient may cease eating, or may become incontinent. The patient may also refuse his or her medications believing that the caregiver is giving them poison. As you can see, Alzheimer’s disease sets up patients for paranoia conditions as well. |
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Lewy and Alzheimer Vascular |
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Lewy is a body dementia, which experts have discovered as being the cause of dementia. The condition causes involuntary loss of intellectual or mental functions. The progressive disorder targets the brain tissues, which it gradually deteriorates the tissues and nerve cells. Lewy bodies will often build up in the nerve cells, which start the progression of degeneration within various areas of the brain in and around the stem. The condition is prevalently causing symptoms of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease to emerge, yet many experts dispute its implication.
Men are the primary targets of “Lewy Body Dementia.” Unlike Alzheimer’s disease where the brain starts to form clusters of “beta amyloid plaque,” Lewy bodies will cluster. Lewy bodies will target the entire brain. The significance of this disease is that it produces alike or similar symptoms as that of Alzheimer’s disease.
Once a person has developed to the progressive stage of Alzheimer’s disease, he will begin to hallucinate. Lewy hallucinations are slightly different, since the visuals are vivid. In addition, Lewy bodies disable doctors from prescribing anti-psychotic medications, since the patient will respond reversely.
Lewy bodies also causes a person to drift daily, thus shifting mentally more dramatically than that of Alzheimer’s disease’s symptoms. Most people diagnosed with Lewy will feel sluggish, move slowly, and find it difficult to walk. This condition is far severe, since to date no present treatment has proven to relieve the patient. However, doctors will often use similar medications to treat Lewy, same as used to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
The stroke:
In addition to Lewy, another condition known as multi-infarct dementia or vascular dementia causes similar symptoms as Alzheimer’s disease. Vascular is caused by a series of strokes, or a single stroke. The condition causes dementia to arise. What happens is the brain becomes dysfunctional. The tissues are destroyed, (Infarcts) which is what causes the dysfunction. Men are the prime targets of this type of dementia. The condition can cause diabetes, as well as high blood pressure. Diabetes and/or high blood will damage the vessels, which stem to the brain.
Once vascular dementia sets in it begins to destroy tissues in the brain, which in turn blocks blood from flowing to the brain. The condition causes the patient to feel week and in some instances paralyzed. The person will experience loss of memory as well. Alzheimer’s disease once progressed will flow rapidly as it tears down the tissues and nerve cells. Vascular dementia will have its high and low moments. That is the disease will progress, slow, and re-progress later. The condition causes involuntary wandering, as well as weakness, which makes tasking a problem.
Alzheimer’s disease causes the personality to shift, as well as hindering judgment. Abstract thinking is interrupted when Alzheimer’s is present also. Dementia of this nature may not have the same affects.
In addition, vascular dementia can cause a person to loose sight, i.e. the ability to see effectively. Speech may be slurred and/or slowed as well. The patient may find it difficult to walk, since a limb may feel paralyze.
Treatment
Doctors have not found a cure for this form of dementia. In some instances however, medications such as anti-coagulants will slow the symptoms. Aspirin is prescribed as well since the blood flow is blocked when vascular dementia is present.
Alzheimer’s disease symptoms include dementia. The forms of dementia must be reviewed and understand however before one can decide if their future poses a threat of Alzheimer’s disease. In this instance, it may be likely the patient will develop symptoms of Alzheimer. Still one must consider other types of dementia, including Pick’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and so on. |
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How to Relate to Stages of Alzheimer |
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When a person is suffering with Alzheimer’s disease abnormal changes happens to the brain. As a result, certain aspects of the brain functioning that control the memory, behavior, and there personality begins to degenerate. Also, other bodily functioning can be lost. It’s important to understand the stages and symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease to help your love one cope, as well as to learn how to cope your self, especially if you are caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease.
How they diagnose
Diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease is determined by stages. To be diagnosed with this illness there’s a series of test and tools to be evaluated like the thinking, behavior, and physical functions. There’s no single scale, which can be used to make the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s but itself.
Here are some of the test doctors use to help determine the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.
(1.) Clock drawing test, (2.) mini-mental examination (mmse) and the third one is functional assent stage (fast) these are just a few tests.
The doctor may also want to have a meeting with close friends and family members to monitor the behavior and explain why the patient’s actions, behaviors, etc may be changing. The doctor may also ask questions about your family history. That is because they believe that Alzheimer’s is a genetic illness.
Blood and urine test may be done, as well as tests to note physical sensations, sense of balance and other functions controlled by the central nervous system. Your doctor may even order a brain scan to rule out other causes of Dementia like a stroke.
A psychiatric evaluation is often requested to determine emotional factors, which lead to positive diagnosis. This illness can start 10-20 years before you notice any signs or symptoms, there for you wouldn’t know if it you have the condition up front .
One of the first signs of Alzheimer’s, is memory loss, which could mean the brain maybe starting to shrink. There are three main stages of Alzheimer’s, which include the mild, moderate, and severe states. It’s not easy to look inside a living brain to see the damage that Alzheimer’s causes. Characterized by a collection of signs and symptom’s and behavior that people with this disease, that’s why there are all those test done to make sure you have this disease .
The first stage is a mild stage, you experience difficulty learning and remembering any information, difficulty-managing finances, planning meals, taking medication, and depression will develop. However, some patients may not develop symptoms until the condition progresses.
The second stage is the moderate stage that’s where they forget old facts (like their age). The patient continues to repeat him or herself repeatedly. Difficulty performing tasks (like cooking and going to work), makes it frustrating for the patient. Care providers will also find it difficult to care for the patient.
The last stage is the severe stage is where they may have a hard time walking. Dementia usually develops, which speeds up Alzheimer’s symptoms. The disease develops characteristics that make the person prone to pneumonia. They also sleep a lot, and sometimes the patient does not want to get out of bed at times. With Alzheimer’s you will have to find a doctor who understands the various aspects of Alzheimer and treatment’s.
You can measurements to prevent Alzheimer’s disease. We recommend that if you have a history of Alzheimer’s disease to learn helpful tasks to reduce your risks.
Alzheimer’s disease has affected millions of people in the United States alone, and is expected to affect millions of others in the short distance. |
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How to Cope with Alzheimer Reality |
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Alzheimer’s is touchy subject for me to write about .You may ask why is that? Grandma had the disease and we knew nothing of the kind at first. We thought she was just getting old. We didn’t know anything about this disease and if we did, we would likely say it wouldn’t happen to us. Well it did happen and there wasn’t nothing we could do as a family, other than watch it take over my grandma’s life the way that it did.
Grandma’s isn’t here now with us, since the disease claimed her life. She didn’t die of this mind robbing disease. It just killed her brain and left her not knowing nothing or feeling any pain. I went though all the stages of Alzheimer’s with my grandma and not knowing and understanding this illness. It made things harder for us to deal with, which is why I want to tell you how the disease Alzheimer’s robs your soul.
We thought grandma was just getting older. We didn’t think that it would happen to us but it did. Alzheimer’s affected me again. My grandparents had a friend that had Alzheimer’s and we would have to go to Indiana and get him because he lost his way. Again, it wouldn’t happen to us we thought until it happen. In the first stage of Alzheimer’s they forget some things like names, as well the person often haves trouble doing everyday task.
Alzheimer’s disease will affect the mind, causing the person to forget as dementia develops. For example, I went to grandmas one day and she was crying. I asked her why she was crying and she said the bank had called telling her she had written some bad checks. I asked her why and she said your grandpa gave me the money. She couldn’t recall what happen to the money.
Of course, family members will help work out situations, yet in this instance, it was too late, since we lacked knowledge. The money was never recovered. Did she even get money, or was it the disease deceiving her?
Grandma would always forget small things like our name and call us someone else. The action is common for those with Alzheimer’s disease. Things that a person would do everyday become harder. Again, we thought she was just getting old.
What woke us up is when grandma would go for her drive on the weekends to see everyone and she wouldn’t come home until dark. She hated to drive after dark. One day she was coming to our house and she never made it, she was lost for hours. We had no idea where she went. So we thought it was best if we took her driver license. We thought it was going to help her. We later found out that taking the license just made her want to give up.
We didn’t know we were hurting her. So we let her have them back and then my grandpa got rid of the car. He told her it was junk, which went better for all of us at that point. Stage 2 of Alzheimer’s disease came and that’s where grandma got depressed. She didn’t want to go anywhere. She loved going to town but not now. All she wanted to do is stay home and sleep everyday.
Chores became harder and harder for her to do. So now, at this point we had to do something. We couldn’t take care of her anymore so we put her in a nursing home where she could be taken care of all the time. And this is where the stage came in and grandma was gone out of her mind.
The disease ceased her willingness to talk, eat, enjoy activities, etc. Grandma was robbing of seeing her grandchildren grow up. She seen them but she didn’t. Grandma died about 2 years ago of old age. Her body was healthy but her mind was taken by this awful disease called Alzheimer. I hope that you don’t know anyone that has this disease. It is very sad to see what it does to a mind, therefore learn more now to take steps later. |
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