Alzheimer's Disease Symptoms
What is Alzheimer's Disease? Throughout the world, this neurologic health disorder is become more and more prevalent in modern society. Alzheimer's disease, also called Primary Degenerative Dementia, accounts for nearly half of all the dementia cases recorded each year. Its onset generally begins in the middle ages and because this disease is progressive than the prognosis for patients who have this disease is extremely poor.
However, what are the signs and symptoms of this depressing condition? The onset of Alzheimer's disease is very insidious. At first, the person who has Alzheimer's disease goes under small and imperceptible changes. These imperceptible changes are things like recent memory loss, a difficult in learning things and/or remembering new information. A person may experience forgetfulness, deterioration in their personal hygiene and appearance, and may have a great inability to concentrate. These small imperceptible changes often occur gradually. Other tasks that may require a person to think abstractly and do activities that may require judgment will become more and more difficult for that person to do.
Now, as the disease continues to progress more rapidly, there will be an increased difficulty in communication and that person will have deterioration in memory, language, and motor functions. This will result in a loss of coordination and an inability to write or speak in the person suffering from Alzheimer. During this stage, the person may start to exhibit personality changes like irritability and restlessness, and they may have nocturnal (nightly) awakenings.
Some other signs of this disease are that the person will start to lose eye contact with other people. They may even start to have fearful looks, wring their hands, and display other signs of extreme anxiety. When this happens the person suffering from Alzheimer's disease will become extremely overwhelmed. When that person begins to feel extremely overwhelmed they become very dysfunctional, agitated, compulsive, acutely confused, and fearful. In the end, the person will become much more disoriented to everything surrounding them, and their emotional health, physical well-being, and intellectual disability progress at a faster rate. At this stage, the person becomes very susceptible to infection and accidents and death will usually result from infection.
Therefore, if you or a love one have any of these symptoms, then it is really important that you contact your healthcare provider as soon as possible. The earlier a person receives treatment the easier it is to deal with. Understanding these signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's is extremely important for sustaining a better quality of life for everyone involved.
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Monday, June 23, 2014
Alzheimer's Disease Stages
Alzheimer's Disease Stages
Alzheimer's disease is generally a familiar form of dementia, a severe brain disorder that has a major impact on the memory loss and thought process. Alzheimer's is a gradual deterioration disease, starting from the lack of memory to extensive neurological injury and eventually may cause death. Chemical and physical changes of the brain steadily destroy the capability to fashion, retain information, study, cause, and relate to others. As essential cells start dying, extreme personality loss occurs and leads body to a systems failure. Most senior citizens mainly of 65 years face the phase forgetfulness that is just not convenient and usually involves insignificant information. Conditions like eccentric and senile can cover worries of Alzheimer's disease, while other circumstances may in fact be causing mental demur.
Starting mild effects of the first stage Alzheimer's disease patient's persistent recent memory is lost, mainly of latest negotiations and dealings. In the contrary he may ask questions repeatedly, and finds difficult to understand his own language with an inability to express his problems. Writing and other daily activities become difficult. Depression and lack of concern can occur. Extreme behavioural changes may come with functional turn down. Continual reminders are required for a daily routine, and with an impact of a series of difficulties driving early in this stage.
II stage: Alzheimer's disease patients in this stage are unable resolve their own problems. Minor level of forgetfulness is the first sign commonly observed by its relatives. And the recent past events cannot be recollected and hence the patient forgets the where they have left their personal positions and to where they at moment really are. He forgets to put off important things like electric lights and switches and most vitally the gas taps are left open. He misses appointment, forgets the names of newly introduced, and especially those of near ones as well. Hunting of an address in a new place is the major hurdle for them.
III stage: Declination is aggravated in personal behaviour and social awareness. He act rude, in tactful, doesn't show any feelings, this insensitive and uninhibited behaviour drives him bad to worst that is aggressive actions, sexual indiscretions and failing to obey the laws. Patients are expected to sit calmly for hours and hours without responding to any form of useful activity.
IV stage: Emotional mood changes may be prominent during the early stages and causes some difficulty in differentiating dementia from affective disorders. They appear to depend on some degree of insight into failing intellectual powers.
Alzheimer's disease is generally a familiar form of dementia, a severe brain disorder that has a major impact on the memory loss and thought process. Alzheimer's is a gradual deterioration disease, starting from the lack of memory to extensive neurological injury and eventually may cause death. Chemical and physical changes of the brain steadily destroy the capability to fashion, retain information, study, cause, and relate to others. As essential cells start dying, extreme personality loss occurs and leads body to a systems failure. Most senior citizens mainly of 65 years face the phase forgetfulness that is just not convenient and usually involves insignificant information. Conditions like eccentric and senile can cover worries of Alzheimer's disease, while other circumstances may in fact be causing mental demur.
Starting mild effects of the first stage Alzheimer's disease patient's persistent recent memory is lost, mainly of latest negotiations and dealings. In the contrary he may ask questions repeatedly, and finds difficult to understand his own language with an inability to express his problems. Writing and other daily activities become difficult. Depression and lack of concern can occur. Extreme behavioural changes may come with functional turn down. Continual reminders are required for a daily routine, and with an impact of a series of difficulties driving early in this stage.
II stage: Alzheimer's disease patients in this stage are unable resolve their own problems. Minor level of forgetfulness is the first sign commonly observed by its relatives. And the recent past events cannot be recollected and hence the patient forgets the where they have left their personal positions and to where they at moment really are. He forgets to put off important things like electric lights and switches and most vitally the gas taps are left open. He misses appointment, forgets the names of newly introduced, and especially those of near ones as well. Hunting of an address in a new place is the major hurdle for them.
III stage: Declination is aggravated in personal behaviour and social awareness. He act rude, in tactful, doesn't show any feelings, this insensitive and uninhibited behaviour drives him bad to worst that is aggressive actions, sexual indiscretions and failing to obey the laws. Patients are expected to sit calmly for hours and hours without responding to any form of useful activity.
IV stage: Emotional mood changes may be prominent during the early stages and causes some difficulty in differentiating dementia from affective disorders. They appear to depend on some degree of insight into failing intellectual powers.
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