alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer’s disease and treatment

Eman youssif

Medical research institute2013

The content:*introduction

*risk factors

*story of Alzheimer’s disease

*symptoms

*treatment

Introduction-video

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Introduction

Ronald Wilson Reagan

Puskas Ferenc

Claude shannon

World health education -news

Worldwide, nearly 35.6 million people live with dementia.

This number is expected to double by 2030 (65.7 million) and more than triple by 2050 (115.4 million) .

(58% )living with dementia in low- and middle-income countries.

By 2050, this is likely to rise to more than 70%.

World Alzheimer’s month

Alzheimer’s disease story

structure

Hippocampus: where short-term memories are converted to long-term memories

Risk factors

1-genetic factor

2 -environmental factor

3 -age

4-life style

medication

smoking

Sleep deprivation

Depression and stress

Nutritional deficiency

Symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease-stage 1

Lose things like papers or keys

depression

Getting lost and change in personality

Stage 2

moderate

Forget recent events and their personal history

Reading and writing are more difficult

Hearing problems

Stage3(severe)

Lose the ability To feed themselves

sleep

Damage the brain

Treatment for stage 1Stay calm and be understanding.

Be patient and flexible. Don’t argue or try to convince.

Acknowledge requests and respond to them

Treatment for stage 1

Music therapy

change the moodtreatment the first stage of Alzheimer

Treatment by meditation

Treatment for stage 2Color therapy

What about green color?

drugs

Donepezil ,rivastigmine and galantamine

Increase communication between the nerve cells

Temporarily improve or stabilize the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease

Finally advise to you

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references

Books:

1-Strategies for creating better care environmentBib Alex2-the encyclopedia of ALZ.. Disease –bib Alex3-designing for Alzheimer’s disease-bib Alex

web site:http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/priority_medicines/BP6_11Alzheimer.pdfhttp://www.alz.org/aaic/overview.asp?gclid=CLyHlciwir0CFeFZ2wodAxUASAhttp://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=147http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alzheimers-disease/basics/causes/con-20023871http://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/publication/alzheimers-disease-genetics-fact-sheethttp://www.nature.com/nrn/posters/ad/index.htmlhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10653281http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0013812http://med.stanford.edu/news_releases/2007/july/music.htmlhttp://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Preventing_memory_loss.htm

Lectures::

Neurology lec. By prof .dr .Mohamed B. Abou – Donia –December 2013Apoptosis course –medical research institute

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