Alzheimer's Disease Research Papers
Have you ever thought how would life be if you couldn’t remember it? sadly, this is the true life story of millions of older adults who suffer with Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer is an irreversible cognitive memory loss disease that is currently the leading cause of dementia. The disease is said to be more common on adult in their mid 60’s however early signs of the disease have been identified on individuals has young as 30. Memory loss, unpredictable behavior and abnormal language problems are just some of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s, a person with advance stages of the disease are totally depended on others. They will have trouble conducting regular day life, such as cooking, driving, or just conducting an ongoing conversation with another
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Today thousands of researches are being done on the attempt to slow down or stop the spread of the disease. One of the most promising results are pointing towards the effect physical exercise has on patients. Researchers believe that there is an important connection between dementia and heart health risk factors like cholesterol and high blood pressure, and it so happens that this health risk factor could be prevented with physical activity. A research from the Danish Dementia Research Center that was led by Steen Hasselbalch is giving promising results. The research consisted of a large experimental group of people with moderated Alzheimer’s disease. The purpose of the research was to study the effect that aerobic exercise has on the way the experimental group is able to perform activities on a daily basis, neuropsychiatric and depression symptoms and their quality of life. Two hundred patients aging from 50 to 90 years old with a median MMSE score of 24.0, where randomly assigned to either a control group or a supervised aerobic program. The control group continued with their regular routine, standard care no extra physical exercise. While the experimental group was assigned to a total of a 180 minutes’, weekly supervised exercise sessions, for a 16week period. After an adaptation time the experimental group was able to perform at the targeted 70 to 80% heart rate …show more content…
Alzheimer’s is known to be a causer of great distress for both people with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers. so finding a cure is going to be a great help towards society. I personally know a close friends of the family that suffers form Alzheimer’s and I can say is one of the saddest process I seen. She started by forgetting simple stuff like forgetting conversations but on a 4 years course she has forgotten almost every single detail of her life, the only person that she is able to recognize is her husband, she doesn’t even remember she has kids. Before the research I was a little worry because I though her disease was just cause by aging but now I understand that far more
Today thousands of researches are being done on the attempt to slow down or stop the spread of the disease. One of the most promising results are pointing towards the effect physical exercise has on patients. Researchers believe that there is an important connection between dementia and heart health risk factors like cholesterol and high blood pressure, and it so happens that this health risk factor could be prevented with physical activity. A research from the Danish Dementia Research Center that was led by Steen Hasselbalch is giving promising results. The research consisted of a large experimental group of people with moderated Alzheimer’s disease. The purpose of the research was to study the effect that aerobic exercise has on the way the experimental group is able to perform activities on a daily basis, neuropsychiatric and depression symptoms and their quality of life. Two hundred patients aging from 50 to 90 years old with a median MMSE score of 24.0, where randomly assigned to either a control group or a supervised aerobic program. The control group continued with their regular routine, standard care no extra physical exercise. While the experimental group was assigned to a total of a 180 minutes’, weekly supervised exercise sessions, for a 16week period. After an adaptation time the experimental group was able to perform at the targeted 70 to 80% heart rate …show more content…
Alzheimer’s is known to be a causer of great distress for both people with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers. so finding a cure is going to be a great help towards society. I personally know a close friends of the family that suffers form Alzheimer’s and I can say is one of the saddest process I seen. She started by forgetting simple stuff like forgetting conversations but on a 4 years course she has forgotten almost every single detail of her life, the only person that she is able to recognize is her husband, she doesn’t even remember she has kids. Before the research I was a little worry because I though her disease was just cause by aging but now I understand that far more