Alzheimer's
Alzheimer's is a Dementia, which is a brain disorder that affects a person's ability to carry out daily activities. The most well known form of dementia in older people is Alzheimer's disease, which involves the parts of the brain that control thought, memory, and language. Alzheimer's is one of the deadliest diseases because there is still no cure for this disease and scientists still are yet to find out what causes it. What scientists do know are the symptoms, treatment for the disease, some side effects of those treatments, some idea of what causes the disease, and what age it is more common in. So with the increasingly amount of research and money going into finding a cure to this disease it seems to be a matter of time till the cure is found. Until that happens more and more people who grow over 60 will end up obtaining this debilitating disease. The most important thing is to catch it in the earlier stages when the treatment is the most helpful.......
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