What is Alzheimer's Disease?
Alzheimer's disease is a physical illness that causes radical changes in the brain. As healthy brain tissues degenerate persons suffering from Alzheimer's experience a steady decline in memory and the ability to use their brain to perform tasks.
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Understanding Alzheimer's is an essential part of this foundation.
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia.
Alzheimer's disease affects a person's memory, mood, and behavior.
Memory difficulties and behavior changes can be early signs of Alzheimer's disease.
- Over time, a person with Alzheimer's disease has trouble remembering, speaking, learning, making judgments, and planning.
- Persons suffering from Alzheimer's are often moody, restless, and sometimes mean.
- Alzheimer's disease affects almost all aspects of brain functioning, including personality, and the ability to perform the most basic activities of daily functioning.
Alzheimer's disease is a an irreversible brain disorder with no known cure.
The cause of Alzheimer's disease is not yet known.
Alzheimer's disease is always fatal.
From Alzheimer's Reading Room
- Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, accounting for as much as 70% of all cases of dementia.
- Age is one of the most important risk factors for Alzheimer's disease. The percentage of persons suffering from Alzheimer's disease doubles every 5 years beyond the age of 65.
- Women are more likely to develop the disease than men are – in part, because women live longer.
- People who have a brother, sister, or parent suffering from Alzheimer's disease have a slightly higher chance of developing the disease. Right now about 3 percent have a proven hereditary link (genetics).
- Heredity plays a much larger role in early-onset (before age 65) Alzheimer's. About 500,000 Americans suffer from early onset Alzheimer's. The number is growing.
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