Alzheimers Disease

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Alzheimers Disease
Information Resources Do you have this? Go to
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• Presented by Amy Zirbser

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General Information

• Most common form of dementia
• Coined by Dr. Alois Alzheimer
• Brain changes occur in patients
• 4 million suffer
• Patients can live from 8-10 years

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Symptoms of AD

• In the very beginning, mild forgetfulness
• a. events
• b. activities
• c. names of familiar people
• d. how to do simple tasks
• e. anxiety or aggression

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Diagnosis

• Can only be done by a autopsy
• Doctors need to look for plaques or tangles
• in brain tissue
• Early diagnosis allows for planning

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Treatments

• No Treatment
• Drugs that can help
• Cognex
• Aricept
• Exelon

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Ways to prevent it

• Head first
• Take brain health to heart
• Numbers count
• Feed your brain
• Work your body

• Jog your mind
• Connect with others
• Protect your brain
• Use your head
• Think ahead

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The End

• This information as well as more can be found _at_
• http//www.alz.org