Alzheimer’s Disease:

Alzheimer’s Disease:

Imagine a disease that after being married for about 50 years, you look at the individual face and where you truly don’t know who that individual is. Imagine a person being your parent and you go to visit them, and they don’t know your name and in fact they don’t even know that you are their child. This is what happens to an individual with Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disease which affects the memory and other important mental functions like ability of the person to carry out daily activities. At first the person suffering from Alzheimer disease have mild confusion in remembering things. By time passes the victim undergo dramatic personality changes and they even forget most important people in their lives. Alzheimer’s disease is the cause of dementia which is a brain disorder causing loss of intellectual and social skills.

7 years ago, my grandmother was diagnosed with this fatal disease. At that days he can’t remember what he did ten minutes ago. He would constantly forget where he parked his car and left his keys. At that point you don’t really think that Alzheimer’s disease is at work. But over time he started to forget his recent memories. This is the stage one of this disease. Than a time has come when he did not know where his own children live. This is probably the moderate stage. Than in the stage 3 or at last stage he did not remember anything at all. You may think that how could you possibly forget everything. Well you can’t but when you are diagnosed with this fatal disease and you will start losing your short term and even long-term memory when it gets worse.

Everyone has occasional memory losses. It is normal to lose track where you put our keys or driving license. But the memory loss with Alzheimer’s disease persists and worsens. There are some of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease which are as follows:

·         First is increasing forgetfulness or mild confusion.

·         Repeating statements and questions over and over again, not realizing that they have asked this question before.

·         Forget conversations, events and appointments.

·         Eventually forgetting the names of family members and everyday objects.

·         Trouble in finding the right word to identify the various objects.

People with Alzheimer’s disease may suffer from:

·         Mood swings

·         Changing in sleeping habits

·         Depression

·         Loss in inhibition

·         Wandering

·         Delusion that something has been stolen

·         Social withdrawal.

Now there is a very interesting phenomena noticed in this disease which is that most important skills are not lost until very late in the disease. The skills include reading, singing, dancing, enjoying old music, telling stories and reminisce. This is because skills and habits learned early in the life are the last abilities to be lost when this disease progresses. This disease is not cure able and even there is no test which confirms you that you have this disease. As there are severe mood swings in this disease so daily walk can help improve the mood and maintain the health of joints, muscles and heart. Exercise can also help to improve the sleeping and prevent constipation.

So, in conclusion I just want to say that people suffering with Alzheimer’s disease need an ultimate care all the times. As in this disease the victims start losing their eating habits so there must someone who takes full care of such patients. Always make sure that the person having Alzheimer’s disease must carry identification or wears a medical bracelet when he or she is walking unaccompanied. Right now, there is no proven way to prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Research in this field is ongoing. But the strongest evidence is that you may be able to lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease by reducing your risk of heart disease.

In the end I just want to say that be grateful of the health and wellness that you have. And always remember “good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings”.

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