Stages, Symptoms, And Treatment Of Alzheimer's Disease

Register to read the introduction… The onset of the disease is slow, but gradually over time it becomes more aggressive and harmful to the person's health. At first the person will experience short-term memory loss which results in the forgetting of simple daily activities. For example, the persons might forget to take his or hers daily medicine. Also during this stage mild personality changes may occur, along with withdrawal from social interaction. The person will also experience memory loss that could affect their job, and the often misplacing of things. As the disease progresses the person will begin to have problems with abstract thinking and intellectual functioning, and they will become agitated, irritable, and quarrelsome.
Considered to be in the later stages of the disease are symptoms such as disorientation and confusion of what month and even year it is, as well as the person not knowing where he or she lives. The forgetting of the names of close relatives or even their own names, becoming violent, wandering off, not being able to engage in a conversation, having erratic moods and behaviors, and loss of bladder control are among the many symptoms an Alzheimer's patient suffers in the later part of the …show more content…
It takes away a person’s self-confidence as well as their dignity. The person has total loss of control of what use to be the center of their life, their brain. Previously they depended on the use of their brain to live a normal life, but when struck with Alzheimer's they must face the fact they are losing control, and will eventually end up not being able to care for themselves. Possibly the worst part is that there is no cure, but there is hope for the future, because research is being done