Speech on Alzheimers

Jordon Wong Alzheimer’s speech I don’t remember a time when my grandpa knew who I was. He had a disease that affected me and my family personally. In fact, I’m guessing that many of you sitting in the audience have also been affected by this horrible disease. The disease I am talking about is Alzheimer’s. Did you know that 1 in every 9 people age 65 or older have it? And even worse 1 in every 3 people age 85 or older are affected by it. Many of you may already know something about Alzheimer’s, but

Intro: Hello my name is Nick and I am giving my speech on Alzheimer’s Disease. I was thinking of what I could do for a speech. Then I thought I wanted to inform people on something that little know about. Then it hit me. Alzheimer’s Disease it has affected my life so much and I know so much about it. So I am going to tell you how it has affected my life in more ways than one. Before I start I want you to imagine something. Look around you know everyone right? All these faces you see practically

Alzheimer 1      It is inevitable that eventually each of us will grow old and begin to face more and more health problems as our age rises. Elderly people are challenged by many illnesses and diseases that unfortunately, are incurable. One disease that becomes more common as people age is Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s a common cause and a form of dementia and can severely damage a patient’s cognitive functions and can ultimately cause death. Living with Alzheimer’s disease

HISTORY OF DEMENTIA: The human brain is extraordinary organ. It stores our memories, vision, hearing, speech, and capable of executing executive higher reasoning and functions setting us apart from animals. Today we know more about the human brain because of medical advances and the development of technology. These brain disorders have been studied for years and many others would classify dementia as a mental illness because it causes cognitive impairments. The following paragraphs will discuss

linguistics and she has complete family but good things are failing when she finds that she is Alzheimer disease. Still Alice story demonstrate to love from family, individual differences and using technology for troubleshooting. All this involves humanism. Humanism believes that human is all living creatures have mind, love requirement, warmth and understanding from family. You find that Alice is Alzheimer. It makes her forgets self. Physical illness brings about to spiritual illness such as forgetting

with this disease. This is largely because of the factors associated with ageing. For example; high blood pressure, changes to DNA and nerve cells, weak immune system and incidences of diseases like strokes and other cardiovascular diseases. (Alzheimers Society, 2015) Alzheimer’s disease affects women considerably more than men due to the lack of hormone oestrogen after a menopause. The lack in this hormone is correlated to an increased risk of the disease. The family history of the condition

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a form of dementia that affects 5 million people in the United States alone. One out of every three Seniors die of the disease just in the United States; 80 million suffering world wide making AD the 6th largest cause of death (climax) (Humpel 1; Alzheimer’s Association). AD is the most common dementia; affecting the neuroplasticity of the brain resulting in physical shrinking of the tissues; thus causing neurodegeneration. Diagnosis of the disease is complex, costly and

devastating disorder of the brain, it is the most common cause of dementia, and the leading cause of death in women in the UK (Gallagher, 2014). Alzheimers is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, that occurs in a middle to old age person. Its symptoms slowly deteriorate the brains functions until it eventually results in death. The most common symptom of Alzheimers disease is progressive memory loss. As the disease progresses patients begin to demonstrate poor judgment and their inability to take carry

Some alternate names for Alzeheimer 's include Alzheimer dementia (AD), Alzheimer dementiia, syndrome, and sclerosis. The name of the disease was chosen after Dr. Aloysius Alzheimer was credited with discovering the first case of presenile dementia. This would later be called Alzheimer 's disease in honor of Dr. Alzheimer 's discovery. In the year of 1901, Dr. Alzheimer was studying a 51-year-old patient named Auguste Deter. The patient was suffering from strage behavioral patterns of symptoms. One

Alzheimer 's disease is a severe illness that affects the brain and leads to gradual memory loss, reduced intellectual ability and deterioration function of thinking. Alzheimer 's disease (AD), the most common type of dementia, is a progressive neurological disorder that increasingly robs individuals of cognitive, behavioral, and functional skills (Demakis, 2007). The reason for the appearance this disease is a collection of disorders in the brain due to which its cells are dying partially. In the