Al-Marsad Daily: Health experts have revealed that Alzheimer’s disease is a disease that causes damage to nerve cells that transmit vital messages from the brain.
While dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are not a single health condition, both are often used when discussing memory-eating diseases, as both diseases affect millions of people worldwide and are a leading cause of death worldwide, according to Russia Today.
Dementia occurs when mental decline is severe enough to impair a person’s ability to work and perform daily activities and cause problems with thinking, reasoning, and memory.
Dementia is particularly common among the elderly, as one in 14 people over the age of 65 have the condition, and one in six are over the age of 80, and women are statistically more likely to develop the disease than men.
As for Alzheimer’s disease, it is the most common cause of dementia, a degenerative brain disease that results from complex changes in the brain after cell damage.
The exact cause of Alzheimer’s disease is still not fully understood, but a number of factors are thought to encourage its development, including older age, family history of the disease, untreated depression, and lifestyle factors associated with cardiovascular disease.
Alzheimer’s disease leads to dementia symptoms such as short-term memory problems or trouble paying bills or remembering appointments.
And the British Health Services Authority has warned that the first indicator of Alzheimer’s disease is usually simple memory problems and the appearance of the following symptoms as the condition worsens:
Confusion and getting lost in familiar places
Difficulty planning or making decisions.
Speech and language problems.
Trouble moving around without assistance or performing self-care tasks.
Personality changes, such as becoming aggressive, demanding, and suspicious of others.
Hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that aren’t there) and delusions (believing things that aren’t clearly true).
Bad mood or anxiety.
