Alzheimer's Association

treatment similar to Alzheimer's disease due to the common nature of symptoms. • Brain biopsy is not possible with present medical technology on live patient. However, they are conduct on dead patients for further research and studies. • FTD is very progressive in nature. • The Frontotemporal Dementia may be hereditary; it is advisable for those families to screen themselves with a neurologist when they are nearing the age of 40years. Either, counseling with dementia association or from a…

Annotated Bibliography Hazzan, Afeez Abiola, et al. "Association between caregiver quality of life and the care provided to persons with Alzheimer's disease." Journal of Systemic Reviews, 1 Feb. 2017, pp. 1-5. BioMed Central. Accessed 15 July 2017. In this journal article, the research group explains that Alzheimer's disease (AD) causes cognitive and functional declines that subjects the caregivers to the mental stress of losing the person they once knew as well as physical stress of providing…

Dementia encompasses a wide range of symptoms that compromise a person’s ability to perform daily tasks. Symptoms of dementia include impairments in memory, behavior, language, and cognition (Alzheimer’s Association, 2012). There are many causes of dementia including neurological disease, vascular disease, and traumatic brain injury. In the 1980’s, medical doctors began to inquire about the speech, language, and hearing of patients with dementia. Since then, the speech language pathologist’s…

The main irreversible causes of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease which is the most common. It can be hereditary if there is a family history. Vascular dementia is related to patients that have high blood pressure, high cholesterol and heart disease. Parkinson’s disease is the stiffness of limbs and having…

American Medical Association (JAMA), the result shows that nearly 3,000 older Americans and 30,000 Medicare beneficiaries had poor vision associated with poor cognition. The researchers used different measurements of cognitive abilities like memory, orientation and planning. The consistency of their findings suggest that the association between vision impairment and compromised brain function is real. According to Dr. Suzann Pershing, an ophthalmologist, “while this association doesn’t prove…

States alone, over 5 million senior citizens have Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. Each year, Alzheimer’s disease claims over half a million senior lives. In 2014, costs related to this disease totaled 214 billion dollars and are expected to continue rising. Alzheimer’s average onset is around age 65, but can be seen in ages as young as 30. Women are almost twice as likely as men to develop this disease (Alzheimer’s Association, 2015). Pain is present in a minimum of 40%…

Get Medical Assistance for Dementia in Initial Stage when it is LBD The Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) or Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a common Neurological term associate with patients suffering with a mix of Alzheimer's diseases (AD) and Parkinson's diseases (PD). The patient may become very serious physically and mentally if not treated in the beginning stage. Since, the present advanced pharmaceutical, behavioral and cognitive treatment. However, there is no permanent cure so far available…

Cognitive impairment and chronic mental illness are conditions that need special attention when noted. These changes can impact the older adult’s ability in performing their activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs). According to Touhy and Jett (2012), cognitive changes are often overlooked and undiagnosed by healthcare providers that may lead to greater impairment and functional decline, because of missed early intervention and treatment (p.376).…

Alzheimer 's disease is the most common, incurable disease that effects thousands of elderly people. It is also one form of Dementia and effects the brain in various different ways. Alzheimer 's disease makes it difficult for an individual to remember certain task, words, or phrases. Doctors have tried for years to find a cure but have not came up with one yet. The seven stages of Alzheimer 's that people go through can be drastic and overwhelming. In the early 1900 's a man by the name of…

A dormant eighty-five-year-old Alzheimer's patient sits in a wheelchair in his nursing home where he has resided for the past 15 years. His full and eventful life has come to a halt as his alzheimer's began to progress rapidly. His love of music, which began as a child and carried over into his adulthood, has vanished, or so it seemed. Until one day a music therapist came into the nursing home and placed a pair of headphones that were connected to an iPod, over the resident’s ears which were…