People with Alzheimer’s may benefit from some of the non-drug approaches to managing behavior symptoms in an effort to promote physical and emotional comfort. Many of these strategies aim to identify and address needs that the person has difficulty expressing as the disease progresses. Id...
Not all memory loss indicates Alzheimer’s disease. Nonetheless, Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, which affects approximately 26 million people worldwide. Alzheimer’s is a degenerative disease such that symptoms usually develop slowly and gradually worsen over time, ...
Alzheimer’s disease and multi-infarct dementia, which involves a series of small strokes in the brain, cause the vast majority of dementias in the elderly. Other possible causes of dementia-like symptoms include infections, drug interactions, metabolic or nutritional disorders, brain tumors, depressi...
Early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, also called younger onset Alzheimer’s disease, is an uncommon form of dementia which affects individuals younger than the age of 65. Of all the people afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease, only an estimated five percent will develop symptoms at a younger age. ...
Alzheimer's disease is just another part of aging—everyone has memory problems as they get older No. The symptoms of Alzheimer's disease are much more severe than any memory loss that occurs with the aging process. In the early stage of Alzheimer's disease, patients may get lost while tra...