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Senior Care for Alzheimer’s
Author: Alex Jensen
As a person ages, a certain amount of memory loss and confusion is quite normal. Personally, I’ve been known to invoke the cliché, “The older I get, the better I was!” Unfortunately, Alzheimer’s disease represents a more serious loss of mental sharpness and calls for special care for seniors.
Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s Disease is a progressive form of pre-senile dementia. Symptoms are typically first noted in a person’s late forties or early fifties. As the disease takes effect, it will first impact memory. Impaired thought and speech will follow with the patient eventually becoming helpless.
Alzheimer’s is a truly horrible disease because it robs a person of their ability to function. The disease is also damaging to family and friends as it is very difficult to watch a parent, brother, sister or friend progress to the point where they don’t recognize anyone. The burden of caring for a person suffering from Alzheimer’s is significant. At some point in time, a family will have to look for assistance with the care.
Most “board and care” and “assisted living facilities” are willing and capable of providing for a person suffering from Alzheimer’s. These facilities are similar to nursing homes, but with less of an institutional atmosphere. If, however, a senior becomes increasingly disoriented, perhaps even occasionally wandering away, they may require a facility with a dementia waiver.
Despite the name, a “dementia waiver” is an indication that a facility and staff have additional training and licensing for the care of patients with dementia. On top of the additional training, the actual facility may be secured with a perimeter to keep patients on the grounds.
Alzheimer’s disease leaves a mark on family and friends as well as the victim. There are, however, facility options that can at least take the care burden off of you.
About the Author
Alex Jensen is with Careplacement.com - a free placement service for Southern California. Care Placement's staff can review your care requirements to determine whether skilled nursing care, assisted living facilities or board and care homes are a viable option for seniors.
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Australian scientists say they have identified a toxin which
plays a key role in the onset of Alzheimer's, raising hope that
a drug targeting the toxin could be developed to slow the
degenerative brain disease.
The toxin, called quinolinic acid, kills nerve cells in the
brain, leading to dysfunction and death, the scientists said.
"Quinolinic acid may not be the cause of Alzheimer's disease,
but it plays a key role in its progression," Alzheimer's
researcher Dr Karen Cullen from the University of Sydney said in
a statement. "It's the smoking gun, if you like."
"While we won't be able to prevent people from getting
Alzheimer's disease, we may eventually, with the use of drugs,
be able to slow down the progression."
Alzheimer's is a brain-destroying disease that affects millions
of people around the world. As the population gets steadily
older, experts estimate numbers will balloon to as many as 16
million in the United States alone by 2015.
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