Alzheimer’s Treatment

Alzheimer's is a severe form of dementia, a kind of a brain disease progressively damaging memory and thinking skills. The person can eventually lose its independence even for day to day activities.

The only way to diagnose a disease is to find out whether plaques and tangles are present in the section of the brain. To look into the tissue, the doctor has to perform brain biopsy test or brain autopsy test, an examination of the brain done after the person dies. When the person is alive, the diagnosis is fully dependent upon the possibility or probability through examination of general health, past medical problems, family history, asking questions about personality changes, memory tests, language skills, problem solving capacity, attention.

A person with his early disease developmental stage may find difficulty in remembering things, he can ask the same questions again and again, have trouble managing finances, taking longer than normal to finish daily tasks. A person may also face difficulty in finding the right words in his speech, impaired reasoning or judgmental abilities. He or she may as well experience mood swings or personality changes.

Although the time from diagnosis to death varied from person to person, it can be as little as 3 to 5 years for the person above 80 years of age. For younger patients, time may vary between 7-10 years.

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