Title: ALZHEIMER’S

Title: ALZHEIMER’S

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Also known by medical literature as Alzheimer disease is the most common form of dementia common among old people. It is a disease of the brain that worsens progressively as the years go by and was discovered by a neuropathologist known as Alois Alzheimer.

1. Assessment of the disease:

This is a clinical definition of the disease, how it is acquired, how it spreads and how it has affected people in the past few years.

2. Diagnosis of the disease:

Refers to the process of studying a disease getting to know what causes the disease through evaluation and review of the patient by a series of tests and examinations.

3. Treatment of the disease:

How can the disease be cured, though in the case of Alzheimer there is no cure for the disease and the disease worsens with age.

4. What do people with this disease go through and how are they treated in the society.

Through discussion of the following points above we will be able to describe how the disease is how it affects the patients both physically and psychologically. Through the description of the disease we get to learn spreads how it is acquired and what can be done.

Alzheimer is a common form of dementia that mostly affects people around the age of 65 although to some people it occurs earlier.  The disease has no cure and it progresses slowly with age and as it worsens death eventually sets in.  It was first discovered in German by a neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer; according to statistics for a count done in the year 2006 26.6 million people were diagnosed to suffer from Alzheimer (Granser, 2009). The disease develops differently in different people with the hugest symptom being having trouble to remember events from recent past. As the disease progresses other symptoms set in which include, irritability, aggressiveness and long term memory loss.  Following diagnosis the life expectancy of a patient is seven years and less than three percent of the infected population makes it to fourteen years. It is a difficult disease to predict as it occurs differently depending on the individual, making it difficult to predict (Granser 2009). In order to determine that one is suffering or is likely suffering from this form of dementia one should look through the above symptoms hence this will help early detection and medication and therapy can begin soonest possible before it becomes too late.

Through studying a patients signs and symptoms and getting to know what is causing the problem is referred to as diagnosis. The need to carry out a diagnosis of dementia lies on the following points, to rule out conditions that may have the same symptoms to Alzheimer for example chest and urinary infections. So as to give the person the chance to make future decisions before things get out of hand and through diagnosis and identification of the presence of Alzheimer enables people to provide support to the infected people. The first step of diagnosis involves getting to here from the patient or the person concerned what the symptoms are and when they started. But with Alzheimer the most certain diagnosis is done after death during a post mortem. For a case of early identification the diagnosis can take 6-12 months so as to determine if its dementia or not. While carrying out a diagnosis of the disease, an analys.............