Facts of Alzheimer's

In older people main cause for dementia is Alzheimer's disease. Dementia symptoms include changes in personality, thinking, memory and behavior. Alzheimer's disease affects the part of the brain that controls memory, language and thought. There are many people in millions who are suffering from dementia in world. This disease usually begins after the age of 60 years and doubles for increase of every 5 years in people. Alzheimer's disease is named after the physician Dr. Alois Alzheimer a German doctor. He noticed changes in brain tissue of woman who died of mental illness. There is a loss of nerve cells in the areas of brain, which cause mental disabilities.

There is no cure for this Alzheimer's disease but effective care and support will help in Alzheimer's to control to somewhat extent. There are many risk factors for this disease such as age, family factors, hereditary, genetics, etc. There are other reasons for this disease such as head injury, brain tumor, etc. Persons with Alzheimer's disease need total care. Only way to diagnose Alzheimer's disease is whether there are any plaques and tangles in brain tissues. Doctors can diagnose Alzheimer's disease correctly up to 90 percent.  Doctors will speak about with their family members and test urine, blood, spinal fluid to look for other possible symptoms for this Alzheimer's disease. Tests of memory, problem solving, attention, language and counting.

Alzheimer's causes dementia. Dementia of three types generally. They are Alzheimer's dementia, vascular dementia, and lewy body dementia. There are three stages in Alzheimer's disease they are mild, moderate and severe. Doctors scan brain so that whether there is anything, which is abnormal. As the disease gets worse people with Alzheimer's forget things which happened just, becomes confused, aggressive, anxious, some may become anger and violent also. Their mood changes unpredictably. Unable to think clearly. Become passive and lose their initiative. Scientists are still trying to know more about causes for Alzheimer's. In additional to genetics, they are studying education, diet, environment and infections to learn what role they play in development of this Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer's disease is most commonly found in older people who are 60 years and more than 60 years. First the brain cells destroy slowly and then it leads to the progressive disorder of brain, which leads to death. This Alzheimer's has no cure. We have to take care of people who suffer from this disease carefully and effectively.

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