Cierra Myers
Comp 1
3-26-14
According to an article titled “Methods Based on Speech Analysis Oriented to Automatic Alzheimer Disease Diagnosis”, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia among elderly people in Western countries and it has a large socioeconomic cost to society which is expected to increase in the near future”. There are a lot of things that people do to try and fight Alzheimer’s and usually they come up short. At this point in time Alzheimer’s is a disease that doesn’t have a cure. There is a lot of research and experiments happening to try and develop something for it. Alzheimer’s is said to be very high costly. Which is true, you have to pay for hospitals, nurses, homes, medicines and everything else eventually adds up. People don’t realize the effect the disease has on not only the person with it but the family as well. Growing up my family was extremely close. Every Sunday all the kids would go to Sunday school and church with my grandfather. While we were at Sunday school my great grandmother was cooking, she would always cook the same thing, breakfast tacos and tamales. Everyone in the family would come over and eat with us. After Sunday school my grandfather would meet all the kids at the church and sit through the service with us. Being a little kid we really didn’t want to sit through church for an hour, so all the kids knew if our parents didn’t show up and it was just grandpa we were leaving church early. When we arrived back at the house my grandma always had our plates ready for us. Every Sunday it was the same thing breakfast tacos, tamales, rice and beans. She would always wait for everyone else to eat then she would. She loved cooking for us it was her passion. My family in particular had a tradition with my great grandparents. Every time the circus or Disney on Ice came to town we would take them to