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Alzheimer's Disease and Disorientation Difficulties

The confusing and upsetting feelings of disorientation are extremely common in Alzheimer's disease and can cause patient's to forget who and where they are. Not knowing your name or address or the correct day or month is a very common symptom that helps define the disease, as such feelings are closely connected with a person's memory or the ability to remember. The nature of the memory loss...
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Alzheimer's Disease - 'The Living Death'

Alzheimer's disease or the 'living death' was named after Dr Alois Alzheimer who discovered it in 1907, when he described the amazing effects the disease had on the brain of a 51 year old woman who had apparently died of dementia. When examined under a microscope, her brain showed chan...
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Communication Difficulties With Alzheimer's Disease

Essential communication skills such as speech, reading and writing begin to be lost in one of the most upsetting and frustrating aspects of the disease. While an understanding of simple speech remains intact during the early stages, the patient can experience growing difficulties in finding and using the correct words. However as the effects of the disease intensify t...
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Malnutrition as a Result of Alzheimer's Disease?

Some of the most difficult aspects of Alzheimer's disease are the problems associated with eating and drinking. This can be as mild as coping with a food fad or as serious as malnutrition. It's quite common for Alzheimer's sufferers to develop food fads. These are exasperating as it's difficult to make an ...
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Worrying About Alzheimer's Disease

As people enter their middle years, they start to notice more and more frequent lapses of memory, particularly their short-term memory. They may enter a room to do something, and forget what it is. They may be unable to recall the name of someone who used to live next door. And they may start to worry that their forgetfulness is not just a harmless incident, but the first indication of something far more sinister—the onset of Alzheime...
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