Category Archives: Brain

Medical care for Alzheimer’s

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Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disease that damages the brain and that, over the years, giving it increasingly difficult to live their daily lives, to not being able to be autonomous and need help and continued help. Therefore, in Italy there are structures that can provide the ‘proper medical assistance and’ medical aid and social need.

The family doctor was given the task of assessing the health of the person, assume the presence of the disease and to connect the patient and his family with Alzheimer’s Unit evaluation. Continue reading →

Alzheimer’s disease

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The disease or Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, especially among the elderly, and affects the central nervous system cells, which gradually die. The disease is named after the German neurologist who first, in 1907, described its symptoms and neuropathological aspects. It is a disease that affects memory and other cognitive functions, such as speaking and thinking, alters the normal activity of the person as a result of a state of confusion, involves changes in mood and disorientation in time and space. The disease has an enormous social impact, because the resources (emotional, economic and organizational) that fall on the family of the sick.  Continue reading →

Alzheimer’s disease (memory disorders)

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Throughout Europe are soaring people with memory disorders. Only in Italy is estimated that 800,000 people suffer from dementia, and by 2050 their number will double.

Since 1907, when the neurologist Alois Alzheimer described the first example of this disease in his patient confused and forgetful, this “disease” has quickly changed from medical rarity to a real social problem. Currently it is estimated that suffer from dementia by five to nine percent of the elderly, and in Italy the people affected are almost 800,000, of which more than half are affected by Alzheimer’s disease. Continue reading →