A look into Alzheimer's Disease
...years of painful suffering, he died. The symptoms of Alzheimer's disease are rather easy to distinguish and classify. Patients of the disease lose much of the information that they have recently learned and cannot learn anything new. They begin to constantly misplace objects, often repeat themselves, and usually become confused in simple situations. When in relatively simplex places patients may become lost or even forget where they are. Psychologically however, patients begin to become depressed most of the time and be anxious or confused. Some become restless and can barely ever sleep. The cause of the disease, although not completely proven, is strictly genetics. It is passed down from generation to generation and that is one reason why it is so common among older people. Four percent of persons 65 to 74 years old are affected; ten percent of those 75 to 84 years, and twenty percent of those 85 years or older! It is however, remarkably rare among younger and middle aged people. The treatments and medications for Alzheimer's Disease are rare. The only legal medication in the United States is Tacrine, a drug that modifies the course on which Alzheimer's runs to make the patient's life last a little longer. Treatments of this disease are also very simple. Ways to keep patients on track and not too depressed about their state of being is to keep them feeling as though everything is normal and to make sure that they do everything like routine. At first, patients can be kept at home for a few years, but after many years and gradual loss of ability to control themselves, they must be taken to a nursing home where they will spend the remainder of their lives. Certain health agencies and networks that help infected people and their families exist. Such of these are: For Families Irvine M...