What is Alzheimer's disease ?Alzheimer's diseases are one of the neurodegeneratif diseases (a disease affecting the nervous system) where the sufferer will experience a severe memory disorder. Patients with Alzheimer's will experience loss of memory, which grew increasingly worse until the cause decreased intellectual capacity.
Alzheimer's disease most commonly found in older people aged over 64 years. In developed countries like the United States so far found more than 4 million elderly people suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and is expected to increase nearly 4 times in 2050. It is associated with increased life expectancy in developed countries, so that elderly people in developed countries will increase a lot, and also more likely to be suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
How symptoms of Alzheimer's disease ?
All people must never forget to something we rarely see, but forgot to something that we often encounter or activities that we often do, it needs to be cautious. It could be a sign or symptom of Alzheimer's disease.
Symptoms of Alzheimer's disease that needs our attention, namely:
As social beings, human beings cannot live alone. The presence of friends and family is important. It can be imagined if we live alone. Loneliness will come. It not only causes discomfort, loneliness was also closely associated with Alzheimer's disease.
However, research results are listed in the Archives of General Psychiatry claimed that lonely can increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease. This might be due to loneliness, as well as other negative emotions (such as stress and depression), can cause interference with brain functions.
So, expand your social life. Do not let the sense of loneliness emerged.
- Asking the same question at some point repeatedly or repeat the same story, with the words of the same constant.
- Forgot how to do routine activities. For example, forgot how to cook, how to call and so on.
- Language disorders. For example, having trouble finding the right words. If these symptoms continue then the ability to speak and write will be disturbed also.
- Disorientation. For example, that time forgot what day, what month, there was no idea where or direction. This is why the elderly patients are often lost due to forgetting the way home or even go away from home because he felt he was a foreign place.
- Disturbances in abstract thinking, such as difficulty in counting the money.
- Personality Disorder. For example, becomes huffy, irritable, and suspicious. Doctors often heard complaining that the patient's family accused of taking possession or even accuse her partner had been unfaithful to him.
As social beings, human beings cannot live alone. The presence of friends and family is important. It can be imagined if we live alone. Loneliness will come. It not only causes discomfort, loneliness was also closely associated with Alzheimer's disease.
However, research results are listed in the Archives of General Psychiatry claimed that lonely can increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease. This might be due to loneliness, as well as other negative emotions (such as stress and depression), can cause interference with brain functions.
So, expand your social life. Do not let the sense of loneliness emerged.
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