Who suffer Alzheimer's Disease and How to Treat Them?

Alzheimer's disease is considered as one of the serious illness that might occur to anybody, because the illness is attacking the human brain; so the function of the patient’s brain will be impair. Besides, Alzheimer's is also considered as the common dementia illness that occurs to British people. Patients who suffer Alzheimer's need to be supported by the family, because they don’t have ability to complete day to day necessities by themselves. Patient with Alzheimer tend to forget everything easily, even though the object is necessary for their live. When the illness becomes severe, they even forgot where he lives, who are his family and even about himself.

Who has greater risk is suffering Alzheimer's disease?

Basically all people share the same risk to suffer Alzheimer's, but it is true that people who have medical record where his family suffering the same illness may have a higher risk compare to common people. Genetic factor become the one of main factors that causes Alzheimer's; the risk percentage of people who have family suffering the similar illness are around 49 to 79%. 

You need to note that Alzheimer's is not only occurring in elderly, it may also occur to anybody who is younger than 50 years old. But people do not sense the symptom when it is still in the early stage; it is the reason why it becomes severe when the patients are getting old. People who are younger than 50 years old might need to consider get specific treatment from the doctor when they easily forget stuffs in daily life. Alzheimer's is a type of progressive disease, when the illness is still in mild stages; people might not easily recognize the symptoms. But when it becomes severe, nobody can stop the spreading.

How to treat patient with Alzheimer's

Basically patients with Alzheimer's need to take several medications and treatments including psychosocial intervention, care giving, and feeding tubes; but, there is still no medicine that can cure the Alzheimer's. Patients with Alzheimer's need to consume specific medicine such as acetyl cholinesterase inhibitors and NMDA receptor antagonist; but, the recent studies showed that those medicines are not effective in delaying the symptoms. Psychosocial intervention is designed to help patient will Alzheimer's to overcome some of their specific behavior problem such as incontinence. Psychosocial intervention is applying four major approaches including behavior, emotion, and stimulation-oriented. Even though the treatment is not effective in curing the disease, but its ability to overcome the behavior problem makes these approaches important. Feeding tubes is only applied when the patients develop problem that relate to their eating habit, while care giving is given to the patients since the early symptom began to occur. Family need to manage modify their environment to help both patients and their care taker, the treatment includes a modification toward your storage system, safety lock, and labeling the items in your house. Alzheimer's may occur to anybody, you might need to conduct prevention by changing your life style and diet.  Since Alzheimer's Disease still can’t be cured, the only thing that you need to do is to support the patient’s daily activities.