What is Alzheimer's Disease? Causes, Symptoms and Home Remedies

The illness called Alzheimer, or more specifically Alzheimer's, is an ailment that affects a person's brain. This brain disorder was named after Alois Alzheimer, the German doctor who first illustrated the symptoms of the problem in 1906. Here is more information on this ailment:

• This disease is actually a progressive brain disease that will eventually lead to the person's death. It will get worse as time goes by, and this degenerative disease is fatal.
• What Alzheimer's does is destroy a person's brain cells, which will then cause memory problems, behavioral, and thinking problems and will eventually change a person so much in terms of who they are and what they do.
• Alzheimer's is actually ranked seventh in the leading causes of death in the U.S.
• This ailment is also considered the most common type of dementia, a problem that makes a person lose their memory and their intellectual capabilities. Most dementia cases are attributed to Alzheimer's, with an estimated 50 percent to 70 percent of such dementia cases being diagnosed as or attributed to this disease.
• It is estimated that around four million Americans are now affected with this brain disease.
• Most of the people with this problem are in their golden years and are often above 65, but there are some people who do suffer from Alzheimer's at an early age of 30.