Alzheimer’s disease treatment
What are the stages of Alzheimer’s dementia? Alzheimer’s disease has three stages:
* Easily denial stage symptoms, spatial disorientation in unfamiliar areas, short-term memory problems, decreased performance at work. Often the symptoms pass unnoticed, are minimized or attributed to age. However, easily the most important stage for the diagnosis and therapeutic intervention for maximum efficiency.
Alzheimer's disease treatment
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* Intermediate state has several characteristics: the questions that can not respond, the patient turns his head to an attendant, becomes socially withdrawn, denies illness, spatial disorientation in familiar places, etc. language disorders.
* State that is severe, advanced social indifference, apathy, addiction care, usually require institutionalization. Severe disturbances of behavior may occur: aggression, agitation, vagrancy. In this phase patients are usually vulnerable to wander, there is greater risk of dying from accidents or freezing, heatstroke, starvation, dehydration.
Treatment for Alzheimer’s patients is very expensive – To treat these patients require appropriate medication. Today, drugs in our country for this condition is issued free. Currently, we have very few patients with Alzheimer’s care centers. Stepts for diagnosing this disease:
* Early diagnosis of memory disorders with different etiologies;
* Early diagnosis of disorders such “crazy” and establishing the type of dementia;
* Diagnosis of affective disorders of the elderly.
In developed countries, there are many services for these patients:
* Community hospitals;
* Centers for elderly;
* Support groups for people with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers;
* Educational programs;
* Home food delivery service;
* Based on self-help homes – living in groups;
* Information services for the population.
Also in Western countries exist long service type “or” places that give families an opportunity to pause, to have weekends or holidays, the pacients can leave these centers. Such services may be held for several hours a day, several days or longer terms.
