September 21: World Day of Alzheimer’s Disease
Journal Title: Scholarly Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
Before talking about Alzheimer’s disease, we must understand the concept of dementia, which is conceptualized as the progressive loss of cognitive functions due to brain damage or disorders. Characteristically, this cognitive alteration causes inability to perform the activities of daily life mainly seen in memory, calculation, way of relating and living together, as well as in decision making. Many times, dementia is caused by other types of ailments, such as brain tumors, hydrocephalus, multiple cerebral infarcts, metabolic diseases such as hypothyroidism, chronic infections; or it can also be simulated by anxiety and chronic depression. Being the most frequent cause of dementia (although we already stressed that it is not the only one), Alzheimer’s disease was discovered and reported in 1907 by the German Alois Alzheimer, and it is when until a few years ago it was of unusual characteristics due to the poor expectation of life, but by increasing this, a series of chronic degenerative diseases are derived at the same time, with an increase in their frequency of appearance, among them the condition that welcomes us today. This degenerative dementia is characterized by a gradual onset, but irreversible at the same time, consisting of depression, anxiety, loss of memory, failure of judgment and calculation, view of the handling of money, unexpected exits of the patient from his home, repetition of ideas, as well as altered visions of reality and persecutory thoughts; this series of symptoms are increasingly frequent and intense, leading the patient to prostration, and being prey to respiratory or urinary tract infections, but not before altering the mental state of relatives and caregivers surrounding the patient. There are 40 million Alzheimer’s patients in the world, and it will continue to rise, due to the investment of the age pyramid, and the expected increase in the duration and quality of life in people, through the new medical interventions They are discovering day by day.
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Gabriel Miranda Nava
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