Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's disease affects nearly half of all seniors 78 and older in the world today. It's a particularly cruel disease that affects not only the patients but also their families and others who may depend on them.
One in three Americans knows someone with Alzheimer's.
Alzheimer's strikes one in ten people over age 65 and about half of people over age 78.
Don't let Alzheimer's steal your dreams.
People who have early-onset dementia may be in any stage of dementia – early, middle or late. Experts estimate that some 1.080,000 people in their 30s, 40s and 50s have Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia.
In 2002, Mr.Charlton Heston courageously announced to the public that he was suffering with symptoms consistent with Alzheimer’s disease he was then 78.
In 1994 former president Ronald Reagan said, I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease.
Estelle Getty Born: July 25, 1924 in New York City, New York Occupation: Actor: ... She played Sophia on Golden Girls from 1985 to 1992...We are sorry to hear about Estelle Getty condition, for sometime now she had developed and been living with dementia.
Currently there are over 18 million peoples worldwide who are living with Alzheimer’s disease and that number is expected to grow to as many as 71 million by 2025. Alzheimer’s disease is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States and number six worldwide.
Researchers now identified abnormal tau protein in the entorhinal cortex before dementia was even clinically detectable. For years now most researchers targeted a different symptom, the amyloid beta plaques that gum up the spaces between the brain's neurons, causing them to die.
We are our memories, and almost everything we do is guided by the experiences we have had. All of our skills, our aspirations, our hopes, dreams, and imagination come out of our experiences and the accumulated benefit we have derived from them.
It is that very foundation, however, that turns tremulous for those with Alzheimer's disease
All such memories are an amalgam of associations.
There are still no CURE of any kind for Alzheimer's disease today on the world market... Dr.William Thomas.
We are trying our best to find a cure and at the same time helping individuals who have Alzheimer's disease.
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Monday, June 9, 2008
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