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The Alzheimer's disease is a progressive dementia that takes the memory deficit as one of his earliest and marked symptoms. In general, the patient deteriorates progressively, showing perceptive problems, of the language and emotional as the illness is advancing.
At level neuronal, the illness is associated with the development of badges and balls of fibres that are covering the brain.
50 % of the persons older than 65 years demenciados suffers from Alzheimer's disease.
It is diagnosed definitely during the autopsy.
STAGES OF THE ILLNESS OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
- Stadium 0: Characterized by independence in the work, buys, finance and social activity.
- Stadium 1: Appearance of moderate negligence and difficulties to find words in addition to: loss of objects, negligence of relatives' names, frequency of the phenomenon "to have it in the top of the language" and loss of the spatial perception expressed in not being able to return to house.
- Stadium 2: Frequent and severe complaints of loss of memory and language, incapability to work independently out of the hearth. They begin to need assistance for hygiene, to dress themselves and feeding.
- Stadium 3: They stop recognizing his couple, children and even their own reflex in the mirror. They begin to suffer from silence or incoherent prattle. They present hallucinations, frenzies and such eccentric conducts like storing of everything. Also there begin to happen convulsions, incontinence and infantile reflexes.
RELATIVELY PRESERVED IMPLICIT OR UNCONSCIOUS MEMORY
The called implicit or unconscious memory seems to suffer a much slower degeneration process. It refers to things deeply internalized like singing a mass song in case of a practicing Catholic, cutting a tomato, doing a bed...
DO HOPES OF HEALING EXIST?
Unfortunately, the answer is not, at the moment. Nevertheless, with the progress of the medical attention, the middle age grows continuously in the western societies. The frequency of the senile dementia is considerable and it has big costs for the society in care of infirmary, medical, and of course, in human suffering. For this reason there is a considerable interest in the possibility of relieving the effects of the dementia. In fact, very positive results have been obtained at the time of applying skills of exercising of the memory in order to delay the symptoms.
CAN IT BE PREDICTED?
Persons' evidences exist with a major risk of suffering Alzheimer's disease as his features of personality and habits of life. These persons are characterized for routine lives have little interest in the culture, scarce reading habit, scarce love, absence of curiosity...
Also there exist early skills of detection as simple as the "free memory" that consists of reading a list of words later to evoke them aloud. Severe problems in the achievement of this test denote of very trustworthy form the appearance of the dementia.
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