Alzheimers Guide

Your easy to read guide to causes, prevention and treatment of alzheimers.

• What is Alzheimers
• Symptoms
• Causes
• Diagnosis
• Treatments
• Prevention
• Medical

What Is Alzheimers

Alzheimer's disease [AD], also known as Alzheimer's, is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by:

1. progressive cognitive deterioration
2. declining activities of daily living
3. neuropsychiatric symptoms or behavioral changes.

It is the most common form of dementia, where brain cealls are destroyed, leading to progressive decline in mental function.

Another form of dementia, known as Vascular Dementia results from reduced blood flow to the brain’s nerve cells.

In some cases, Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia can occur together in a condition called "mixed dementia."

Other causes of dementia include frontotemporal dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and Parkinson’s disease.

Understanding The Web Of Alzheimers

There are now more than 5 million people in the United States living with Alzheimer’s disease. This number includes 4.9 million people over the age of 65 and between 200,000 and 500,000 people under age 65 with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.

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