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...
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...
While the most common form of Alzheimer's disease is late onset Alzheimer's disease, which starts after age 60, some people may develop Alzheimer's disease earlier in their lives. Called early onset Alzheimer's disease, patients start having symptoms before they reach age 60. The Alzheimer's...
One of the most difficult, distressing and frightening situations for home caregivers or staff in care facilities is aggressive or combative behavior from someone who has Alzheimer's disease.
Testing is appropriate for people with a family member having early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. It may also be used to confirm a diagnosis in people with symptoms. It is important to test the right family member. Genetic testing should begin with the family member who is most likely to have...