“When is your mother coming home?”
“She will be back by 5.”
*after 5 minutes*
“When is your mother coming home? Why is she not back yet?”
*Sighs*
99.9% of us are guilty of getting annoyed at this kind of situation, if not 100%.
Alzheimer’s, accounts for 60% to 70% of cases of dementia. It is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and gets worse over time.
Unfortunately its very common and over 3M people suffer from it in US.
AD usually occurs in old age, and is marked by a decline in cognitive functions such as remembering, reasoning, and planning.
Imagine waking up one morning and you cannot remember where you are or your own child’s name. This is how severe it can be.
The disease triggers as two abnormal protein fragments called plaques and tangles accumulation hippocampus the part of the brain where memory first formed and destroy brain cells. Eventually,after the plaques and tangles completely kill the hippocampus, it spread inside the brain keeping a particular sequence of ‘victims’. During the process of the disease moving around person’s morality is being vanished. Abilities, like speaking and processing language, solving problems, grasping concepts, keeping controls over moods and feelings, and the most precious memories are forgotten, while, hallucinations, …
There is no immediate cure for it however, one shouldn’t lose hope.
People can try to get rid of this by:
- Medications for Memory Loss.
- Treatments for Behavioral Changes of Alzheimer’s.
- Treatments for Sleep Changes.
- Alternative Treatments for Alzheimer’s.
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