Dementia “I stay positive, because I have chosen to keep a positive attitude.” This quote is from a person living with dementia. When a person hears the word dementia, he or she may not have a clue what that word means, but some may think of a loved one who may suffer from this. Dementia is not a specific mental disorder, but it is a field of mental disorders. There are therapies and medicines but sometimes that is not enough to solve these mental problems. Some cases of dementia can even be genetic. Dementia is a devastating diagnosis that can change someone’s life forever and effect the people around them. Dementia has varied types and the most common is known as Alzheimer’s disease. This disease accounts for 60-80 percent of dementia cases
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The process to finding cures have been worldwide and many breakthroughs have happened. Hospitals and clinic have opened all over to help find a cure and donations are made all over the world to create more research into finding a cure. Finding a cure is hard to find for such a deadly disease that destroys the brain slowly as years go by. Some say that the best cure for Dementia is certain ingredients in food. A man by the name of Martin Riley is a man who shared his story on a website he created and told the story of his wife. Riley goes on to tell this story about how his wife began to not be able to remember how to do daily tasks and even asked her how to draw a clock in which she could not. Later, Martin took his wife to the doctor where she was given medicine to “help” with these symptoms. As she continued with her life, they realized that the medication was not helping in any way but in fact harming her and causing her to faint regularly. The wife soon discovered that she didn't want to be a burden to the family so she found a care home and was to live there. AS they tour the home the met an Indian lady who was 107 years old and claimed that she would not touch the food at the care home, what she ate would keep the mind young. She told Martin to research the village she was from and that he then would know why she doesn’t have dementia. Riley went home to find
The process to finding cures have been worldwide and many breakthroughs have happened. Hospitals and clinic have opened all over to help find a cure and donations are made all over the world to create more research into finding a cure. Finding a cure is hard to find for such a deadly disease that destroys the brain slowly as years go by. Some say that the best cure for Dementia is certain ingredients in food. A man by the name of Martin Riley is a man who shared his story on a website he created and told the story of his wife. Riley goes on to tell this story about how his wife began to not be able to remember how to do daily tasks and even asked her how to draw a clock in which she could not. Later, Martin took his wife to the doctor where she was given medicine to “help” with these symptoms. As she continued with her life, they realized that the medication was not helping in any way but in fact harming her and causing her to faint regularly. The wife soon discovered that she didn't want to be a burden to the family so she found a care home and was to live there. AS they tour the home the met an Indian lady who was 107 years old and claimed that she would not touch the food at the care home, what she ate would keep the mind young. She told Martin to research the village she was from and that he then would know why she doesn’t have dementia. Riley went home to find