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Quick Facts
- Alois Alzheimer first named the disease in 1906
- Alzheimer's is differently experienced by different sufferers
- Cognitive tests are used to confirm the disease
- Most early symptoms are misunderstood as age-related problems.
- The real causes are still not fully understood.
Expert summary
It is ironical that the German neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer has been immortalized because of the Alzheimer’s disease. It was Alois Alzheimer who first described the disease. It is usually found among people above 65 years of age. The most tragic aspect of the disease is that it is incurable, degenerative and terminal. Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia. There are about 26.6 million Alzheimer’s patients in the world. That number is expected to quadruple in about fifty years. The first symptom is memory loss like difficulty in remembering recently learned facts. Diagnosis is confirmed with behavioural assessments. As the disease advances, there will be total memory loss and loss of bodily functions.
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