Looking at Dementia-Alzheimer’s a Neurocognitive Disorder Alzheimer’s is the most common type of Dementia that is found and is considered to be a disease because there is no cure for it at the moment but treatment can help control some of the symptoms. In the article “Alzheimer’s disease” by Kaj Blennow, Mony J de Leon, and Henrik Zetterberg the authors stated that Alzheimer’s is the most common case seen in dementia and accounts for 50-60% of all the dementia cases. The onset of Alzheimer’s is most common in people around the ages of 60s and 70s. It is possible for someone with Alzheimer’s to develop it at a younger age but it is not seen frequently in anyone younger. The most common symptoms of Alzheimer’s is confusion, negative cognitive
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It has been shown that if a person has a poor education background, low mental ability in their early life, and a reduced mental and physical ability in their later life than they are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s later in life (Blennow, Leon, and Zetterberg, 2006, 387). The severity and development of Alzheimer’s can depend on a person’s cultural influence, if their cultural influence is more positive toward natural aging than there are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s and Alzheimer’s that is develop is less likely to be sever. In the study “A Culture–Brain Link: Negative Age Stereotypes Predict Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers” by Becca R. Levy, Luigi Ferrucci, Alan B. Zonderman, Martin D. Slade, Juan Troncoso, and Susan M. Resnick, they examined what impact negative age stereotypes has on the brain and its development of Alzheimer’s. Their findings showed that those who lived in a society where there are negative aging stereotypes were more at risk of having their hippocampus decline; “As predicted, participants holding more-negative age stereotypes had a significantly steeper decline of hippocampal volume than did those holding more-positive age stereotypes” (Levy, Ferrucci, Zonderman, Slade, Troncoso, and Resnick, 2015, 85). The hippocampus is a big contributor to the development of Alzheimer’s because it is the center of the brain that controls our emotions, memory’s, and central nervous system. This shows how negative stereotypes in society can contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s in patients of those who grew up around that negative stereotype by negatively affecting their brain
It has been shown that if a person has a poor education background, low mental ability in their early life, and a reduced mental and physical ability in their later life than they are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s later in life (Blennow, Leon, and Zetterberg, 2006, 387). The severity and development of Alzheimer’s can depend on a person’s cultural influence, if their cultural influence is more positive toward natural aging than there are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s and Alzheimer’s that is develop is less likely to be sever. In the study “A Culture–Brain Link: Negative Age Stereotypes Predict Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers” by Becca R. Levy, Luigi Ferrucci, Alan B. Zonderman, Martin D. Slade, Juan Troncoso, and Susan M. Resnick, they examined what impact negative age stereotypes has on the brain and its development of Alzheimer’s. Their findings showed that those who lived in a society where there are negative aging stereotypes were more at risk of having their hippocampus decline; “As predicted, participants holding more-negative age stereotypes had a significantly steeper decline of hippocampal volume than did those holding more-positive age stereotypes” (Levy, Ferrucci, Zonderman, Slade, Troncoso, and Resnick, 2015, 85). The hippocampus is a big contributor to the development of Alzheimer’s because it is the center of the brain that controls our emotions, memory’s, and central nervous system. This shows how negative stereotypes in society can contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s in patients of those who grew up around that negative stereotype by negatively affecting their brain