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Alzheimer's disease - Coggle Diagram
Alzheimer's disease
Affects
Brain
injured/dead neurons that slowly destroys the memory
Thinking processes decrease and are slow
Unable to speak proper sentences
Social behavior - won't be sociable with others
Mental health
disrupts daily life
depression as it makes people who have this disease to remember and enjoy life
Hallucinations and delusions
Physical health
Unable to swallow
Unable to balance
Unable to have bowel or bladder control
Treatments
Therapies
Physical therapy
Antibody therapy
Slowing down the progression of the disease
Aducanumab (recently approved in 2021) - is antibody therapy that helps the immune system to remove amyloid deposits from the brain.
by removing them it is slowing down the disease and help other processes in the brain to function efficiently
amyloid deposits are misfolded protein meaning that these proteins don't function
Impacts
People
Elderly (over the age of 65) are impacted as it's common to have this disease
Relatives will be impacted from the person that has this disease
Society
Caregiving
Health
Employment
Income
Family Finances
Families
Friends
Economy
Cost of treatments
Cost of care
Causes
Genetics
passed on
Symptoms
Memory loss and confusion
Inability to learn new things
Difficulty with communication
Thinking logically
Shortened attention span
Problems with coping in situations
Testing processes
Brain Imaging
CT scans
MRI scans
Specialists
Physicians
Neurologists
Neuropsychologists
Geriaticians
Geriatric psychiatrists