Living With Alzheimer's
Living with Alzheimer's is a section of the site with links
to various materials, books, news articles, health guides, and personal web
sites that deal with caring for a victim of Alzheimer's. And victim is
a deliberate noun choice to describe those with Alzheimer's. My father
was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in August of 2001. How long he had the
disease before being diagnosed I do not know. I noticed something was
wrong on a trip to the Pacific Norhwest on which he, my mother and I made in
June of 2001. He would ask you a question and then a few moments later
ask it again. At that time, his only symptom was short term memory loss.
Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, degenerative and irreversible
brain disorder that causes intellectual impairment, disorientation and eventually
death. There is no cure. It is estimated that 2-5% of people over 65 years of
age and up to 20% of those over 85 years of age suffer from the disease.
- From BBC Alzheimer's
Disease - BBC Medical Notes
Wikipedia
- Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Association
- US
Alzheimer's
disease and dementia - BBC Health article
H2G2
Guide on Alzheimer's Disease - From BBC
Alzheimer's
Disease - BBC Medical Notes
Alzheimer's
Society - UK
Alzheimer's Foundation of
America - US
Medical
News Today - The latest Alzheimer's News & Dementia News articles
published daily
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
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