The Role Of Nutrition In The Prevention Of Alzheimer's Disease

For this project, I would like to discuss Alzheimer’s Disease. Alzheimer’s Disease is the most common form of dementia and is a great risk factor in increasing age (alzheimer’s association, n.d.). There is a lot of research being done on this disease and ways to treat it, but there is no current cure that has been found. I decided to research this disease because it is such a frequent disease and I feel like I should get to know more about it. Also, because a cure has not been found for it I think it will be interesting to learn about the many ways it is being studied and researched. In this paper I will discuss the overall etiology of Alzheimer’s Disease, the role nutrition has in the prevention of AD, the progression, treatments, recommended diet for people with this disease, nursing assessment and interventions that should be implemented, ways to educate clients and adherence of drugs with this disease. In this paper, I will thoroughly discuss Alzheimer’s Disease and the many important findings of it.
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“The prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) increases exponentially with age but there is limited knowledge of the modifiable risk factors for AD” (Neurol, 2009). Though, there is a multitude of evidence for dietary risk factors in the development of someone becoming diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. There have been many studies that show plenty of evidence that suggests the relationship between diet and AD is similar to that between diet and coronary heart disease. Overall, there has been a lot of recent studies to show that certain dietary components may play a protective role in the risk of