One growing concern among the health field is that the elderly population is growing at a rapid rate with the Baby Boomer generation aging. For most, along with aging, come cognitive impairment and with the large population of older adults this is becoming increasing problem. A category of cognitive impairments is dementia. There are multiple types of dementias, such as vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease to name a few. The most prominent of the dementias is Alzheimer’s disease (AD). According to Uriri-Glover, McCarthy, and Cesarotti, (2012) “AD is a progressive degenerative disease of the cerebral cortex resulting in diffuse atrophy of the cerebral cortex,” and about 5.4 million Americans suffer from this disease
