She, a person seventy-one years old, had been able to live alone for eleven years perfectly fine. No one thought that this would happen. Dementia takes the lives of healthy, hard working, and amazing people; just like it did to Esther Welp. Those affected by this disease have these: memory loss, executive dysfunction, spatial disorientation, personality changes, trouble communicating, and appearance change(Shea). They lose the ability to do everyday normal tasks such as bathing, cooking, and using
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April 28, 2012 Prolonging the Inevitable Alzheimer’s disease was named after a German neuropathologist and psychiatrist by the name of Aloysius Alzheimer who is credited with identifying two symptoms of the disease; amyloid plaques and neurofribrillary tangles in the brain. It is important to understand that Alzheimer’s disease is not a type of dementia; it is simply a disease that causes dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is an incurable progressive disease that can take up to twenty years to advance
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history, I am predisposed to one specific genetic disease: Alzheimer’s. There is one case of this disease within my family tree. My father’s mother suffers from Alzheimer’s. I will be talking about this disease. I will discuss why I chose to talk about this disease, the signs and symptoms of the disease, the modes of inheritance of the disease, when to seek help, any problems I come across, and how I would explain this to my children. I chose Alzheimer’s because my aunt called and told me that my grandmother
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studies have found that people who have been used to doing jigsaw and/or crossword puzzles and who remained fully active enjoyed a longer lifespan and less likely to fall prey to Alzheimer’s, memory loss, dementia and other diseases of old age. The brain produces dopamine, a chemical chiefly responsible for learning and memory. The production of this chemical increases in the brain when it is engaged in piecing together the jigsaw puzzle. Working on puzzles has many benefits. It makes us alert, increases
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the challenges to the individuals, family caregivers and healthcare services for people having Alzheimer’s disease?” With prolonged life expectancy , the population of many developed countries are ageing recently. The prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease with the decline of cognitive abilities increases along with the aging population. There is also a rise of persons younger than 65 having this disease (Cox, 2013). Take Hong Kong as an example ,a research (Yu et al., 2012) estimated the number of
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Even though the cause of Alzheimer’s is yet to be discovered it is known that patients experiencing this disease exhibit two distinct changes in the brain; plaque and tangles. Plaques are made of a protein called beta-amyloid that builds into small clumps in the cortex of the brain that intermingles with the function of nerve cells ( Alzheimer's Disease). Once these nerve cells become affected, the patients gradually begin to change moods and personality. At first it can be difficult to recognize
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The major effects of Alzheimer’s disease The former liberal party leader, Michael Ignatieff said in his essay, “Deficits” (2010) “Sometimes I try to count the number of times she asks me these questions but I lose track” (p.108). Ignatieff is expressing his own feelings towards his mother’s Dementia of Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German physician discovered a patient that suffered from a severe dementia due to brain abnormalities. Alzheimer’s disease is the second most-feared
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Most women know that smoking, drinking, not eating healthy and certain health conditions such as hypertension can add tremendously to the risk of preterm labor, but not many know that gum inflammation can also be a factor in preterm labor. Just being pregnant increases the probability of having periodontal inflammation because of hormonal imbalance. Women who take good care of their teeth and gums protect the health of their unborn babies not only by lowering risk of preterm labor, but also
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REPORT FROM DR AL SEARS Disease-ending breakthrough STUNS researchers at Johns Hopkins... UCLA... and Baylor Imagine your doctor hands you a brand-new pill... At first glance it looks like any ordinary pill... maybe a little smaller, not so fake-looking. But what he says next leaves you breathless...“This is the last thing I'll ever prescribe you...” “It was formulated by UCLA researchers a few years back.”“Since then studies have documented its ability to cure 619 diseases — virtually everything
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all dementia cases (Alzheimer’s Society of Canada, 2014), Alzheimer’s disease is a growing problem today. With close to 90 000 cases of dementia reported in the greater Toronto area (GTA) (Hopkins, 2010) and the number continuing to rise, it is a widespread problem in society. Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by memory loss, difficulty completing daily tasks, confusion, communication problems, and emotional and social changes (Alzheimer’s Association, 2014). Alzheimer’s disease is most common from
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