Alzheimers can pull families apart, since it can happen to a loved one like a parent or grandparent. Since it is the sixth ranked disease in killing people it have affected many families …show more content…
Studies show that the damage of the brain will start around a decade before the the loss of memory begins to happen. At the time the person is going through the deterioration of the brain they will appear to be symptom free and have nothing wrong with them. In the brain around this time the people will have toxic changes happen in one's brain there are abnormal deposits of proteins in the brain. These proteins that are deposited in the brain are the cause of the clumps that appear on the …show more content…
Memory loss is one of the first signs. A way to get alzheimer's is to have mild cognitive impairment or MCI, MCI is memory loss that does not really affect a person's everyday lifestyle. When it comes to people getting alzheimer's from MCI is because older people are just at a higher risk of getting alzheimer's if they have MCI. Not all people that have MCI will get alzheimer's they may even go back to normal or whatever condition they were before having MCI.
There are different symptoms for every person for when they first appear, there can be memory loss, word finding, and even vision spatial issues. There can also be impaired reasoning or judgment. Studies are being put into work to see if they can find symptoms of alzheimer's before the actual symptoms begin, so they may be able to help a person cope with the news are possibly overcome this disease. In this disease there can be many different stages of it. People can have a mild case all the way up to having is be