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The paper "Alzheimer Disease, Dementia" underlines that it may be possible to delay the progression of alzheimer's disease, its symptoms or generally prevent it from occurring.... Statistics indicate that approximately one in eight older Americans manifests alzheimer's disease (13%).... It is anticipated that the number of Americans with alzheimer's disease plus other dementias will increase each year as the ageing U.... alzheimer's disease accounts for close to 60% whereas vascular dementia relates to 30% of the incidence....
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The current tendency toward the continued increase in the numbers of elderly in the US was forecasted long time ago.... Thus, according to the projections made in the 1980's the share of elderly population would reach 21 percent of the US population by 2030 (Kaiser, 1990).... hellip; Modern demographics of the US population have fully confirmed and even surpassed these previously made projections (SOME)....
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hellip; The answer to the frequently posed question 'What is the difference between Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia' is that, in a sense, there is no difference-Alzheimer's disease is one of the many different types of dementia (Brian Draper; 2004)
Dementia
In the case of dementia, the effects have been widely noted and accepted (although the quantity of descriptors may vary from one authority to another): often cited are such symptoms as memory loss, particularly in short-term loadings, confusion, and disorientation in time and place, and personality alterations....
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Human development is an area in psychology that has been continuously explored.... arious studies have attempted to determine the general pattern of growth of human beings.... Moreover,these studies have attempted to describe the various stages of human life....
… There are various facets that define human development....
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In very simple terms, alzheimer's disease is a disorder or a condition that causes a gradual, although extensive degeneration of the nervous system, often seen as a common, yet unnatural effect of ageing.... From a medical perspective, the first signs of alzheimer's disease are detectable from the lifestyle of affected individuals.... One of the earliest, yet most unnoticed symptoms of alzheimer's disease is short-term memory loss.... 'Once identified, the average lifespan of patients living with alzheimer's disease is approximately 7-10 years, although cases are known where reaching the final stage occurs within 4-5 years or at the other extreme they may survive up to 21 years'(Wikipedia, 2007a)....
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Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia are some other problems.... With old age degeneration of the body's systems sets in leading to complications and chronic long-term disease like depression, Parkinson's disease, heart disease, osteoarthritis of various joints, loss of hearing and so on....
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The paper describes the major characteristics of compulsive hoarding.... The term compulsive hoarding refers to the human behavior of collecting objects or materials which they are afraid of getting decreased as time passes.... Compulsive hoarding results in the collection of unwanted and useless items....
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"Relationship between Dementia and alzheimer's disease" paper argues that dementia and its symptoms can be treated through drugs, behavioral interventions as well as nutrition, and exercises that target different symptoms suffered by a demented patient.... he mental disorder which is recognized as alzheimer's disease is most commonly confused with dementia and both the terms are used in an interchangeable manner to refer to each other.... The symptom is dementia and one of the causes of this symptom is alzheimer's disease (Burns, 2001)....
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