There are seven stages of Alzheimer's disease and each stage requires a different caregiving approach. When a patient is diagnosed with Alzheimer, they will generally be diagnosed into a stage and treatment will be determined based on that stage.
Receiving an Alzheimer's diagnosis at the age of 75 can be a crushing blow. Imagine, then, what it would be like to receive such a diagnosis when you are 35, 40 or 45-years-old? You're at your prime in many ways because you've got experience in your work, yet are nowhere near retirement. You have children, maybe yet in grade school.…
Carol Bradley Bursack, Health Guide, posted Grieving the Diagnosis: The Long and… Jim was thrilled to have reached senior partner status in the large law…