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Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s Disease. By:IThomas and ACollins. What is Alzheimer’s Disease?. Alzheimer’s disease is the loss of memory in the brain. Symptoms. Forgetfulness Mild Confusion Impacts your speech Write coherently Judgment Problem Solving. How is it Diagnosed?.

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Alzheimer’s Disease

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  1. Alzheimer’s Disease By:IThomasand ACollins

  2. What is Alzheimer’s Disease? • Alzheimer’s disease is the loss of memory in the brain.

  3. Symptoms • Forgetfulness • Mild Confusion • Impacts your speech • Write coherently • Judgment Problem Solving

  4. How is it Diagnosed? • Can be diagnosed after death when an autopsy of the brain in performed. • The patient being diagnosed will get asked several questions by the doctor • Will get: laboratory, urine, blood test, and spinal fluid samples

  5. Causes • Scientist believe it is unlikely to identify the single cause of this disease. • It is a combination of inter-relater factors including genetic factors that are passes along family lines. • Lifestyle Factors

  6. Prevention • Vitamin E • Antioxidant • Donepezil

  7. Treatment Options? • There are currently no treatments for Alzheimer's disease, but there are medications to help control the symptoms.

  8. Statistics • 14 million Americans will have AD by the middle of the next century, unless a cure or prevention is found. • Approximately 4 million Americans have AD • Alzheimer's disease is the third most expensive disease in the US after heart disease and cancer • One in ten persons over 65 and nearly half of those 85 have AD

  9. Citations • Scarmeas N, et al. Physical activity, diet, and risk of Alzheimer disease. JAMA. 2009;302:627 • What is Alzheimer's? Alzheimer's Association. http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_what_is_alzheimers.asp. Accessed Nov. 4, 2010. • Prevention. Alzheimer's Association. http://www.alz.org/research/science/alzheimers_prevention_and_risk.asp. Accessed Oct. 31, 2010.

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