{"id":4285,"date":"2025-02-13T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mickeylieberman.com\/alzheimers\/?p=4285"},"modified":"2025-02-24T09:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T14:16:39","slug":"why-is-alzheimers-called-a-brain-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mickeylieberman.com\/alzheimers\/why-is-alzheimers-called-a-brain-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Alzheimer’s Called a Brain Disease?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alzheimer’s is Called a Brain Disease<\/span><\/p>\n

Alzheimer’s is a brain disease that causes problems with thinking, memory, and behavior issues.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It is the most common form of dementia that affects a person’s memory and other intellectual abilities to carry out daily activities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since there is no cure, it has been considered an incurable, degenerative, and fatal disease. <\/span><\/p>\n

This incurable condition accounts for sixty to eighty percent (60-80 %) of dementia cases.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although aging is considered one of the criteria, Alzheimer’s is not a part of the aging process although the greatest identified risk factor is increasing age and the majority of people with this kind of brain disorder are sixty-five (65) and older.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alzheimer’s is not just an ailment for older people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some people have early onset also known as younger onset which often occurs when someone is in their forty’s to fifty’s (the 40s to 50s).<\/span><\/p>\n

Although the course of this disease is different for every individual, there are numerous common symptoms.<\/span><\/p>\n

The earliest noticeable symptoms are frequently and mistakenly thought to be age-related concerns or manifestations of stress.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the early stages, the most commonly acknowledged symptom is the inability to obtain new memories, such as difficulty in recalling recently observed facts.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the disease advances, symptoms include mood swings, irritability, confusion, long-term memory loss, aggression, language breakdown, and the general withdrawal of the sufferers as their senses decline.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alzheimer’s worsens over time. It progresses where the symptoms gradually worsen over several years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Progressively, bodily functions are lost, ultimately leading to death.<\/span><\/p>\n

This illness has been considered the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

Individuals with this health problem live an average of eight years after their symptoms become noticeable to others, but survival can range from 4 to 20 years, depending on age and other health conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, this disease has no current cure but treatments for symptoms are available and research continues.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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