If you know someone with dementia or Alzheimer’s, you might say, “It is the least I can do.” You may feel that he or she gave so much of his or her time in you youth when you were a baby, and then on into you teenage years, as well...

Building communication with an Alzheimer’s patient is a challenge. Whether you are a family member or a caregiver, regularly communicating with someone who has the disease is surely going to require patience and understanding. Alzheimer’s disease involves a deterioration of the intellectual process, which can disrupt a patient’s ability to...

Alzheimer’s is a very cruel and unforgiving disease of the brain. Damaging its ability to retain memories and communicate with the rest of the body, it is a degenerative condition, meaning that it grows steadily worse with time. Unfortunately, there is no known cure, nor method of reversing the damage,...

Alzheimer’s disease is a tragic degeneration of the memory and thinking portions of the brain. Characterized by tangled fibers and protein clumps, which are only detectable after the patient passes on, Alzheimer’s disease generally attacks people aged 65 and older. To date, there isn’t a cure for this disease, no...

Difficult to define, Alzheimer’s disease afflicts somewhere between 5 and 15% of people over the age of 65. A progressive disease, grouped as a variety of dementia, it starts out as a few forgotten things here and there and, in time, eventually saps a person of all their memories and...

Treatments in dementia and Alzheimer’s sufferers are often similar because while not the same thing, the two conditions can be related to one another. Dementia is a progressive brain dysfunction that eventually leads to the restriction of daily activities. Dementia is not a disease, but a general description of symptoms,...