Alzheimer's Disease
What is Alzheimer's? 
Alzheimer's is a disease that is usually developed in mid to late adulthood. It results in the decline of memory, and progresses. This is due to the destruction of nerve cells and neural connections.
Stages of Alzheimers
Stage 1: Preclinical
In preclinical, memory loss tends to be greater for someone at that age.
Patients will ask repetitive statements and ask questions because they do not understand what was asked, often misplacing things.
Stage 2: Moderate
Memory loss becomes much more prominent, and this becomes frustrating for patients. Issues of reading, organizing, writing and even speaking occur in this stage. Patients become easily agitated as well: throwing food at members, hitting and kicking them.
Stage 3: Advanced
Disease has progressed to the point where Alzheimer patients cannot recognize family and loved ones, and are unable to communicate to them in some way.
By: Priya Dhillon
Symptoms of Alzheimer's
Memory loss, forgetting how to do simple tasks, inability to problem solve, speech and writing problems, horrible judgement and bad hygiene.
Types of Alzheimers
Late onset: occurs after the age of 65 and is the most common.
Early-onset: extremely rare and occurs in less than 5%, when people get Alzheimer's in their 40 to 50s.
Treatment Methods for Alzheimer's
Brain Imaging by creating pictures of your brain using Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Computed tomography (CT) scan, and Positron emission tomography (PET) scan
Physical exam: doctors will look at blood pressure, assess your heart rate and your temperature.
Lifestyle changes:
Cognitive training exercises (exercising the brain).
Plant based diet.
Maintain an active social life.
Quitting smoking.
Neurological exam: doctors tend to look at the patient's reflexes, muscle tone and their speech.
Exercising regularly.
Mental test: doctors asks the patient questions such as the day, current president etc to see long term and short term memory.