Alzheimer's Disease Impact
Economic impact of Alzheimer’s Disease: According to data collected in 1991, a patient suffering from AD would use $174,000 during his or her lifetime for treatment. The Alzheimer’s Association suggests that a little more than 70 percent of the patients suffering from AD choose to live at home and 75 percent of the care they receive is from their family and friends. The depressive symptoms experienced by the patient and other neuropsychiatric symptoms greatly affect the quality of life for both the patient and his or her caregiver. The severity of the symptoms experienced by the patient further increases the long term care cost along with the time that the caregiver would have to spend with the diseased person. Previous research indicates
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This is valid in terms of the African American community. The growing rate of the elderly population in the African American community has highlighted the notion of the persistence of Alzheimer's disease in that community (Barnes & Bennett, 2014). African-Americans are twice as likely to develop late onset AD compared to their Caucasian counterparts. In addition, African Americans do not get diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease at the proper time. They get diagnosed at the late stages of the disease, with as much as a gap of seven years, because of the fact that they do not contact a physician in a timely manner. It is because their caregivers are not sure about the severity of the problem, attribute their memory loss to the normal process of aging, and find it difficult to tell the patient that he or she has dementia because of the possibility that the patient may become angry, and therefore, may not agree to see a physician at all. Interpersonally, Alzheimer's disease can impact blacks adversely because they tend to become lost (in terms of place) and display inexplicable anger towards others. In addition, Alzheimer's disease causes great sorrow in African American families because the family members find it quite painful to acknowledge that their loved one …show more content…
Both these genes have to do with the transport of cholesterol in the body, and the metabolism of cholesterol has been shown to have a significant impact on the development of AD. In addition, some African Americans have lived in non-urban environments during childhood (because of low socioeconomic status), and have a mediocre quality of education. As a result of their quality and level of education, some African Americans face impediments during the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease because they do not score well on tests which ascertain their capabilities of cognition and reasoning . All of these reasons can also promote the development of AD in their community (Barnes & Bennett,
This is valid in terms of the African American community. The growing rate of the elderly population in the African American community has highlighted the notion of the persistence of Alzheimer's disease in that community (Barnes & Bennett, 2014). African-Americans are twice as likely to develop late onset AD compared to their Caucasian counterparts. In addition, African Americans do not get diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease at the proper time. They get diagnosed at the late stages of the disease, with as much as a gap of seven years, because of the fact that they do not contact a physician in a timely manner. It is because their caregivers are not sure about the severity of the problem, attribute their memory loss to the normal process of aging, and find it difficult to tell the patient that he or she has dementia because of the possibility that the patient may become angry, and therefore, may not agree to see a physician at all. Interpersonally, Alzheimer's disease can impact blacks adversely because they tend to become lost (in terms of place) and display inexplicable anger towards others. In addition, Alzheimer's disease causes great sorrow in African American families because the family members find it quite painful to acknowledge that their loved one …show more content…
Both these genes have to do with the transport of cholesterol in the body, and the metabolism of cholesterol has been shown to have a significant impact on the development of AD. In addition, some African Americans have lived in non-urban environments during childhood (because of low socioeconomic status), and have a mediocre quality of education. As a result of their quality and level of education, some African Americans face impediments during the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease because they do not score well on tests which ascertain their capabilities of cognition and reasoning . All of these reasons can also promote the development of AD in their community (Barnes & Bennett,