Stevenson, Sarah (2013) from the Senior Living Blog stated that “In America, a new case of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) develops every 68 seconds; by 2050, the incidence will increase to every 33 seconds”. Alzheimer’s disease is among the leading causes of death in the United States, Alzheimer’s disease has ranked as the sixth most prevalent one, taking about 83,308 lives every year according to the National Vital Statistics Reports (Murphy, Xu & Kochanek, 2010,pp1-15). Alzheimer’s disease is a neurological condition in which cessation of brain cell performance occurs, eventually advancing to dementia. Dementia slowly begins to erode the memory and thinking abilities of an individual, ultimately leading to death (Lu & Bludau, 2011, pp 2, 11, 24,
