preview

Dementia and Alzheimer´s Disease

Better Essays

1. Throughout this line of study, Alzheimer’s disease is a specific form of dementia. According to Alzheimer’s Association, dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability that is severe enough to hinder daily life. Memory loss is a symptom of dementia and the most common type of dementia is Alzheimer’s. One of the most common and severe symptom of Alzheimer’s is difficulty remembering newly learned information. The changes of Alzheimer’s normally begin in the part of the brain that affects learning (Overview Alzheimer's Association). Some other symptoms of Alzheimer’s include gradual memory loss, the decline in capability to carry out everyday tasks and the loss of their language skills. According to Bialystok the rate of …show more content…

His intellectual and emotional functions appeared to be related to the vast majority of other individuals who are inflicted with Alzheimer’s disease. Rose’s abilities, mental and intellectual, gradually declined and he became more confused. Remembering names of his friends were difficult, he was not able to remember most of the things surrounding him. Then his thoughts start to be too chaotic for him to handle, and small conversations start to become complicated. Performing his everyday tasks were challenging for him, as well as finding the correct words to identify simple objects like comb (Rose, 2000). His emotional capacity was affected from all of the changes, and his emotions targeted sadness, fear, and anger, while trying to be positive around his loved ones. He felt that his thoughts and feelings were circling around his mind destroying how thought of himself. Rose was irritated at the thought of not being able to do anything to help himself and to stop his torturous disease. He believed that Alzheimer’s was a disease of pain, in his words he said it was “a thief, a murder and destroyer of minds.” As his disease progressed, Rose felt more comfortable staying at home, where he was loved and understood by his wife Stella. Even though he might have looked healthy in the eyes of others, but eyes can be deceiving and that the general

Get Access