Alzheimer's is a disease that a lot of people get when they are old, most people that have it are in the ages of 65 and older. A lot of cases of dementia come from alzheimer's almost between 60-80 cases. Alzheimer’s normally hits older people just randomly because they do not catch the early onsets of the disease. You do not just randomly get it most the time you start with an early set of alzheimer’s and this process starts between the age of someone's early 40’s and 50’s. Alzheimer's is a disease that causes memory loss and progresses over time, it does not get better with anything including medication. You have to let the disease take its course and just be there with the person as they have it. As soon as you start to see the symptoms
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Those that are diagnosed normally have a chance of living up to 8 years after the symptoms are noticed but yet in some cases depending on the person's health and age they can live anywhere between four to twenty years. This disease normally hits families very hard and they do not know what to and wonder why it had to be one of their family members and wonder why there still is not a medication that can stop the progress of the disease. Today there is no known medication that can stop the disease from happening all it can do it is slow the spread of dementia symptoms.
("Alzheimer's Disease & Dementia | Alzheimer's Association", 2016)
Course Treatment As of right now there is no treatment that can just stop the disease from happening but this is something they do to help with the behavioral problems and try to make the person as comfortable as possible. The …show more content…
As the disease progresses and get worse the individual needs more help with their daily lives they could start of with home care and someone come and set with them, but sooner or later that’s not going to be enough and they will need a lot more care than that and they could start to freak out about a “stranger” being in there house. At this time what would be most appropriate for the person with alzheimer’s would be to go into a long term care facility. In this facility they would have all the help they need at all times and the families would not have to worry about their loved ones wandering away and not know how to get back to where they are supposed to be. They would not have to go on about the day and wonder is there loved one still alive and not think about what they have to when they get home from work to take care of them. At this place all they would have to do is come and visit with them and be there for them when they needed it. The staff at the long term facility would be the ones that when and check on them when they needed some or when they were worried about them they would be right there and could just walk in and make sure they do not need anything and to see if they can do anything for them. The staff would do as what you asked of them
Those that are diagnosed normally have a chance of living up to 8 years after the symptoms are noticed but yet in some cases depending on the person's health and age they can live anywhere between four to twenty years. This disease normally hits families very hard and they do not know what to and wonder why it had to be one of their family members and wonder why there still is not a medication that can stop the progress of the disease. Today there is no known medication that can stop the disease from happening all it can do it is slow the spread of dementia symptoms.
("Alzheimer's Disease & Dementia | Alzheimer's Association", 2016)
Course Treatment As of right now there is no treatment that can just stop the disease from happening but this is something they do to help with the behavioral problems and try to make the person as comfortable as possible. The …show more content…
As the disease progresses and get worse the individual needs more help with their daily lives they could start of with home care and someone come and set with them, but sooner or later that’s not going to be enough and they will need a lot more care than that and they could start to freak out about a “stranger” being in there house. At this time what would be most appropriate for the person with alzheimer’s would be to go into a long term care facility. In this facility they would have all the help they need at all times and the families would not have to worry about their loved ones wandering away and not know how to get back to where they are supposed to be. They would not have to go on about the day and wonder is there loved one still alive and not think about what they have to when they get home from work to take care of them. At this place all they would have to do is come and visit with them and be there for them when they needed it. The staff at the long term facility would be the ones that when and check on them when they needed some or when they were worried about them they would be right there and could just walk in and make sure they do not need anything and to see if they can do anything for them. The staff would do as what you asked of them