Alzheimer"s Disease and Dementia Alzheimer's disease is emerging to potentially become the largest medical problem facing the elderly in the 21st century. Right now, an estimated 4.5 million Americans are known to have the disease Understanding Alz.. A poorly understood illness, Alzheimer"s gradually steals away its victim's mental and physical abilities, leaving them in a chronic out-of-mind state. It can last for an indefinite period, and as a result has a significant impact on all those close to the victim. The disease, by gradually taking away the mind and personality of the sufferer, leads to behaviors that can be extremely...
is a pill or treatment for everything from acne to baldness, it is very hard for people to accept a disease that has no known cause and, so far, no cure. So much is still unknown about the disease that the only official way to diagnose Alzheimer"s is by observation of brain degeneration at autopsy About Alz.. I have no doubt that in the future we will be able to combat and defeat this dreadful disease. Until that time comes, people should realize that any person is at risk for developing this disease at some point in their life.