Early Alzheimer’s Disease results from aging of your brain and the loss of cells, and most commonly begins in the memory section of your brain. Early Alzheimer’s Disease can be easily hidden by the suffering person and typically is missed by the average physician. People with early AlzheimerΓÇÖs Disease are not usually examined by AlzheimerΓÇÖs
For decades, the official and technical diagnosis of AlzheimerΓÇÖs Disease required disability, meaning a patient was not diagnosed with AlzheimerΓÇÖs Disease unless the cognitive loss was so great that that he or she was unable to function in life. The very unfortunate outcome of the disability criteria is that doctors are reluctant to start treatment
As a medical doctor who specializes in AlzheimerΓÇÖs Disease, I am asked this question often. It is amazing and sad how uninformed most people are about an illness which is currently affecting tens of millions of people worldwide and, by some estimates, headed for 1 billion. For the last ten years and until the end
