What is Alzheimer’s?

It is a form of dementia that takes away a persons ability to reason or remember. It gets worse with time and the causes are yet unknown while the cure in still in the research phase.

Until a cure has been invented the only things we can do is manage it. Early diagnosis helps the patient live longer, healthier, better lives and hope for developments in the future.

Signs of Alzheimer’s

Memory loss that affects your job, inability to remember how to perform daily tasks and problem with language are the earliest detectors of the disease. Patients tend to have mood swings and go through extreme moods within seconds. You can find them laughing to their heart’s content for minutes and within a split second see them flare up. Problems with language skills like inability to use the right words in the right context or substituting words in the wrong context are a few of the other early indicators.

Patents have poor orientation and tend to mix up things of common knowledge like putting salt instead of sugar in the tea. They tend to lack initiatives and what were hobbies and interests all their lives seems absolutely unknown to them. They tend to have personality changes and have pockets of memory losses. They may not remember what they have been doing and during these periods often tend to loose or misplace things. One of the earliest signs includes the patient going back to memories of the past and talk about them as if they were current like referring to a grandchild as if they were their own child.

Alzheimer’s is known to come with the onset of age and some researches have claimed that it is caused by a sudden loss or fear in the persons life, though this has not yet been proved.