Dr. Malgorzata Bach, director of Rockford Health System's Memory Clinic, Illinois, is leading Rockford's fight against Alzheimer's disease. "It is a growing problem in neurology and we don't have anyone to do this work," she says. "It's an underserved area, in general."
Alzheimer's disease is a type of dementia that causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior. More than five million Americans suffer from the disease and symptoms usually develop slowly and get worse over time. Patients eventually lose their ability to interact with their environment.
Alzheimers Disease
Alzheimer''s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease affecting memory and thinking and making the person increasingly dependent on others.
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About 14% of Rockford residents are 65 and older, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and more people are becoming susceptible. It's this population that led Bach to start the Memory Clinic in 2011. "The crisis people are facing is the main reason I got involved. There are survivors of cancer, but there are no survivors of Alzheimer's," she said.
Bach is part of 'The National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease', which counsels patients with Alzheimer's and their loved ones. There's no way to prevent Alzheimer's and treatment options are few but Bach hopes to raise awareness of the disease and develop tools to combat it.
Source: Medindia
Source: Medindia
Diseases Related to Old Age
Ageing is referred to the accumulation of changes that brings a person closer to death.
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 Risk Factors for Alzheimers DiseaseCognitively normal adults exhibiting atrophy of their temporal lobe or damage to blood vessels in the brain are more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease. | Advertisement
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