Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease
” Rogers! Rogers! Why did you leave your job. It’s too much I can’t bear this
anymore. Don’t you know that what times we are passing through. For the past 5
years you are so detached and you can’t do any work properly. Why are you doing
this? Don’t you understand you are just doing our lives.”- said Amy, Rogers’ wife.
Rogers just stood there gawking at his wife.
At the age of 60, Rogers took an early retirement from his government job. Because, for previous
five years he had been having difficulty performing work properly. As a mail carrier, he was
constantly making mistakes and delivering mails to wrong addresses. He also began to become
more withdrawn gradually giving up hobbies that had been important to him. At first his
increasing forgetfulness wasn’t very noticeable when he was at home. Then one day when he was
62, Rogers was hiking in an area he knew well and was unable to return home. Since that he is
memory problems have grown increasingly worse. He losses things for kids appointments and no
longer finds his way around his home town. Now at the age of 66 he is no longer able to
recognize his close friends and family members and is uninterested in reading or watching
television. Things are so bad that his family members have now left him in rehabilitation center.
Alzheimer’s disease is becoming a major public health problem, training societal and family
resources. ( Yegambaram, et.al., 2015). It has been estimated that the rate of Alzheimer’s disease
doubles about every five years after a person reaches the age of 40 (Hendrie,1998). Around 3.7%
of senior citizen suffers from this disease, including 46000 of them in Bengaluru alone and 6.1
million in India. This is expected to triple by 2015 since people above 60 years are expected to
constitute 19.1% of the total population per Dementia India Report. Alzheimer’s disease is a
progressive fatal neurodegenerative disorder. It takes its name from Alois Alzheimer’s are more
1864 to 1915, German neuropathologist who first described it in 1907. It is the common cause of
dementia (Jalbert, et al., 2008). In the DSM 5 it is officially called “major (or mild)
neurocognitive disorder associated with Alzheimer’s disease”. Alzheimer’s disease is associated
with a characteristic dementia syndrome that has imperceptible onset and I usually slow but
progressive but progressively deterioration course, terminating in delirium and death.
Despite of extensive research efforts still there is no treatment for Alzheimer’s disease that will
restored functions once they have been destroyed or lost. Currently treatments targeting both
patients and family members, aim to diminish vegetation and aggression in patients and reduce
district in careers as much as possible ( Practice Guideline, 2007).
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