If you or a loved one is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, it can be a very tragic experience. Alzheimer's is a degenerative disease that affects the brain. It may start off small but gets progressively worse. It currently affects millions of people, and that number is expected to double in the next 20 years.

It is a very scary thought that so many people will experience Alzheimer's either directly or indirectly, so it is very important to find solutions, senior home care, or ways to help manage Alzheimer's for a loved one.

Although the number of people suffering from Alzheimer's continues to grow, many people are still unaware how to spot the actual symptoms. If you can catch the warning signs early, though, you have a much better chance to take a proactive approach to the problem and prepare a number of ways to deal with it. This will also help you decide if a senior home care system is the right choice.

The most common symptoms include - but are not limited to - memory loss that gets worse over time; impaired decision making abilities and making decisions that are completely out of character; and speech impairments. Just remember, these symptoms might be more pronounced with someone that has suffered serious head injuries or with someone who has a history of Alzheimer's in the family.

If you suspect someone of being in the early stages of Alzheimer's, the best thing to do is to seek out a formal diagnosis from a trusted doctor. The doctor will then begin to monitor the person's behavioral symptoms, daily functions, and cognitive abilities.

Depending on how the prognosis comes out, this may be the time to decide if senior home care is your best option. This could also be the time to assign Power of Attorney just in case the patient is soon unable to make independent decisions. You should also expect to have regular appointments for continuing evaluations.

Perhaps the best advice for anyone taking care of an Alzheimer's patient is to be proactive about your care plans. Yes, there are drugs on the market and they can help, but there are many things you can do on your own. Select appropriate activities that they can participate in, or join in with an early stages Alzheimer's social group. You should also try to make their living environments safer and more comfortable.

Do your best to keep the patient involved and interested in their own treatment. You should also not hesitate to discuss all the legal and financial matters that have to be resolved. These are also cases when you might consider turning to some senior home care services to help you get everything sorted out.

Jen has done general research on this topic in an attempt to help anyone in their search for understanding. When afflicted by dementia, Alzheimer's or any kind of illness it helps to find external assistance. Senior home care can help you with your daily life. You can find a reputable home care agency in your local phone book, or on the internet.

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I recently had a client inform me her mother had been diagnosed with high blood pressure. She encouraged her to try my High Blood Pressure program. Her mother suffered from dementia, so other treatment methods were difficult since they involved daily medication or other complicated steps.

While her blood pressure did go down, that wasnt the major point of her communication to me. It turns out that her mothers dementia symptoms greatly subsided once she started my program!

Dementia figuratively means, deprived of mind. It is a increasing decline in cognitive function which affects memory, attention, orientation, judgment language, motor and problem solving skills. Like vertigo which is basically dizziness due to a myriad of causes, dementia is not a disease per se but instead is caused by damage or disease.

Once thought of as part of the aging process, dementia is now thought to be a deterioration due to damage (stroke or other vascular damage, head trauma, alcoholism " due to lack of thiamine and certain other vitamin deficiencies), or disease (Alzheimers " the most common type of dementia, syphilis, Lewy bodies, brain tumors, Picks disease, HIV and/or AIDs, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Huntingtons disease and Multiple Sclerosis).

Common symptoms include moodiness, memory loss, and communication difficulties (including the ability to read and write). Due to the progressive nature of most forms of dementia, the sufferer eventually finds it difficult to perform everyday tasks and can eventually become unable to care for his/herself.

While no longer considered a normal part of aging, studies do reflect that dementia affects 1% of the population over the age of 60, that number doubling every five years after. Interestingly enough, those who are bi or multi-lingual have tend to experience symptoms an average of 4 years later. Use it or lose it, definitely figures in.

Blood tests, CT, PET and MRI scans can rule out dementia due to certain diseases or injuries (stroke), however, many are required to take mental and cognitive tests.

Ones socio-economic, cultural and educational background when administering the test must also be taken into account. Just as many claim IQ tests are biased, it sometimes can be difficult to know what normal is for a patient.

Risk factors include smoking and drinking (alcohol), due to the fact that it puts you at an increased risk for vascular diseases, which in turn puts you at risk for dementia. High cholesterol and diabetes can also contribute.

The reason for dementia is LACK of OXYGEN to vital parts of the brain, regardless of how it occurs (through brain trauma such as a stroke or Alzheimers disease). There are some types of dementia that can be reversed while others cant.

However, do not consider having dementia a death sentence, even if your doctor claims otherwise. New research is emerging on the effects of oxygen on already damaged tissues in the brain. The most important key is delivering the oxygen to the necessary areas of the brain. Worst case, you dont want the dementia to progress.

I highly recommend my programs due to the fact that they are completely natural, relaxation and breathing exercises specifically designed to get blood/oxygen to your major organs, including the brain. My Alzheimers program is coming soon!.

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One of my partners called me this morning to relate a story that came from a woman who was part of the test group for my ultra pure pharmaceutical grade fish oil. What this means is that she was a volunteer guinea pig, and got to take what would be the formula for a couple of months before we released it.

The woman who spoke to my partner is about 50, a widow, and is a nurse at a dialysis clinic. She also has two 9 or 10 year old dogs.

She started to take my pharmaceutical grade fish oil, because the stuff she was taking gave her "fish burps," which she didn't like, and she was attracted to the higher levels of EPA/DHA in my formula, which she wasn't getting in the stuff she picked up at the drugstore.

Her reason for taking the fish oil was to cut down on the amount of pain she was feeling from being on her feet all day as a nurse. At 50, she was experiencing arthritic discomfort, and she had heard that fish oil was helpful in reducing the type of pain that occurs in the joints.

She had been taking my special fish oil formula for a month, when she told us that she had experienced a substantial decrease in her pain level. She even went so far as to say that it felt like she had new legs!

Okay, here is where the dogs come in.

Her hounds, Shea and Shaggy, were not as active as they used to be, and Shea had a little hitch in his giddyup. After a month of taking fish oil herself, she started giving a soft gel a day to the dogs along with their afternoon treat. In two weeks time, the dogs seemed to get their old mojo back, and Shea lost his hitch, and is walking normally.

Now I know this is not scientific, and I'm certainly not a veterinarian. I really don't know what to make of it, other than it's a good story. But if it works...I'm not going to stand in the way of her giving fish oil for dogs.

This woman is our study is definitely not the only one who has touted pharmaceutical-grade fish oil as an effective tool against the pain of common arthritis. Many, many people have reported a dramatic decrease in pain associated with all types of joint pain when they are on a regimen of high quality fish oil.

Columbia University Medical Center recently released a study that shows that omega 3 fatty acids may assist in decreasing the risk of Alzheimer's by 19 to 24%. Taking pharmaceutical grade fish oil can also be very beneficial to your heart, joints, and overall brain function.

In my generation, Alzheimer's is the health problem that people fear the most. And the generation behind me is no different.

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