What can a family support system do for behavioral disturbances in someone with Alzheimer's disease?
Approximately 50 to 80 percent of persons diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease have some type of behavioral or psychiatric condition, such as agitation, psychosis, disinhibition or a combination of these. Agitation is restlessness, irritability,... Read more
For most patients who have Alzheimer’s disease and for families who have loved ones with this disease, research progress in Alzheimer’s disease appears to advance very slowly. Alzheimer described a disease 100 years ago. For the next 70 years little more could be said about the disease than that written by Alzheimer at the turn of the last... Read more
I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday season and is off to a nice 2007. Today, I would like to discuss a common question asked during visits, "The medicine isn't working, should we stop it?"Commonly, persons diagnosed with mild or moderate Alzheimer's disease are started on Aricept, Exelon or Razadyne (formerly Reminyl) with or without... Read more
It is important to distinguish Alzheimer's disease from dementia, which is a more general term. Dementia is the medical term for impairments in thinking and memory that occur due to disease affecting the brain. Alzheimer's disease is a specific form of dementia, and the most common form of dementia in the United States.The first... Read more
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