Alzheimers

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Alzheimers

• Einer Lim
• Block E
• Grade 10 2004

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Table of Contents

• Early symptoms
• Later symptoms
• Final symptoms
• What people do to help
• What you should know
• What you can do to help
• What people do to help
• Where you can go for more information
• Reality
• Pictures
• Bibliography

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Early Symptoms

• People who have Alzheimers will forget things
  like recent events
• They will have an inability to learn new
  materials
• Forget simple skills
• Can be somewhat amusing

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Later Symptoms

• Loss of speech
• Hard mental skills become impossible to perform
• They tend to with draw into themselves
• They understand that something is happening to
  them but they cant figure out what it is

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Final Symptoms

• May go crazy and think people are doing things to
  them that isnt true
• People usually die between 7-10 years after
  getting Alzheimers
• They must be taken care of day and night because
  they cant take care of themselves

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What people do to help

• People usually help in any way they can, but as
  the years go by and the disease develops, most
  people tend to quit their job and devote all
  their time to help
• Most elderly homes have people with Alzheimers
  because they lose the ability to take care of
  themselves

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What you should know

• Alzheimers hits both males and females of every
  race
• People who take care of them can become mentally
  unbalanced and tired
• 90 of the people who have Alzheimers are older
  then 65
• Alzheimers continuously takes away a persons
  memory

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What you can do to help

• Remember people with Alzheimers are still PEOPLE
• Be patient with them
• Learn how to respond when they forget things
• Donate money to help fund research for a cure

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What people do to help

• They have some drugs that, while they dont stop
  the disease, they can slow it down
• People spend large amounts of time and money
  helping

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Where you can go for more information

• Libraries have many books that are very detailed
  in Alzheimers
• Sites like http//www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1998/3
  98_alz.html, http//www.alz.org/ and
  http//www.alz.co.uk/ are also good sources to
  look

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Reality

• There will probably be no cure
• People know basically nothing about it
• More and more people are starting to get it

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Pictures

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Bibliography

• Check A. William. Alzheimers Disease. New York.
  United States Chelsea House Publishers. 1989
• Alzheimers http//www.alzheimers.org/pubs/adfac
  t.htmlsymptom. February 2003. November 25, 2004