Michelle

Alzheimer Disease

Michelle Hood

Professor Sonya Williams

Alzheimer disease is a memory loss and other abilities serious enough to affect your daily life. This disease is known to have about fifty to more case around the world were people are most likely have the disease or have some of the risk witch will be increase in the age that are usually 65 and older. In most cases of Alzheimer disease is not known for old age cause in some of the cases people have an early onset of this disease and they will be in there forty. This disease can get very progressive was it will be worsen over a number of years. Memory loss for patient in there early stages will be mild and with the late stage a patient will lose the ability to carry on a conversation or know how to respond to their living environment. Alzheimer is the six leading cause of death in America. Many of the patients suffer with disease usually live an average of eight years after their symptoms become very noticeable to other and their family member. The survival can range from an average of twenty years which will be depending on their ages and if the patient has any other health conditions. I learned that living with this disease people have a hard time knowing who they are and recognizing their family names. This is a very dangerous disease because it affects the brain and your speech and the way you walk. The Alzheimer disease was never fully understood but was known to kill your cell in the brain. A brain affected by Alzheimer's disease has many fewer cells and many fewer connections among surviving cells than does a healthy brain. I learn that most people need 24 hour care with this disease and can’t go out by them self. As more and more brain cells die, Alzheimer's leads to significant brain shrinkage. When doctors examine Alzheimer's brain tissue under the microscope, they see two types of abnormalities...