World Alzheimer’s Day 2020: This day make people aware of the cause and seriousness of Alzheimer’s disease and in some countries, it is observed whole month. Alzheimer’s is progressively brain disorder which slowly destroys memory and thinking skills etc. In older adults it is the most common cause of dementia. Or we can say that it is a progressive disease that causes brain cells to degenerate and die.
Do you know that Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of Dementia and is currently ranked as the sixth leading cause of death in the United States? But according to some researchers, this disorder may rank third just behind heart disease and cancer, as a cause of death for older people. Most people with the disease are diagnosed after age 65. It is said that Alzheimer’s disease accounts for 60 percent to 80 percent of dementia cases.
Therefore, we can say that Alzheimer’s is a neurodegenerative and progressive disease that slowly destroys memory and other functions related to the memory. It happens when plagues containing beta-amyloid form in the brain.
A person suffering from this disease not able to think properly and the ability to carry out the simplest tasks destroys. With time, symptoms of Alzheimer’s become worsen; it becomes difficult for a person to remember recent events, to reason and even to recognize people they know.
It is the common cause of dementia which is a group of brain disorders that cause the loss of intellectual and social skills. Let us study from the article about Alzheimer’s disease.
World Alzheimer’s Day 2020: Theme
The theme of World Alzheimer’s Day 2020 is ‘Let’s talk about dementia’. to raise awareness around, educate, encourage support of and demystify dementia.
Facts about Alzheimer’s disease.
1. Alzheimer disease is named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer. He had noticed some changes in the brain tissue of woman who had died of an unusual mental illness. It also occurs with other diseases.
2. According to a PhD faculty Timothy Hohman at Vanderbilt University’s Memory and Alzheimer’s Center in Nashville Tennessee says that people who develop Alzheimer’s disease have cardiovascular disease as well.
3. Alzheimer’s disease is not just memory loss in fact decreasing memory is a major symptom of the disease. It is also caused by the build up of proteins known as tangles or plaques within the brain and is also known as third type of diabetes.
4. Due to this Alzheimer’s disease brain cells decay and affect different kinds of cognitive functions like memory loss, language problems and unpredictable behaviour.
5. The greatest risk factor for Alzheimers disease is increasing age. It is not a part of normal aging, but your risk increases greatly after you reach 65. Sometimes symptoms may occur at the age of 30s or so because of rare genetic changes in the people i.e. genes are beyond our control and inherited a version of the apolipoprotein gene known as ApoE (one of three forms of gene) and so is the beginning of early-onset Alzheimer’s.
