Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive brain disorder that causes gradual loss of memory as well as the loss of language skills, and eventually the inability to care for oneself. This disease affects about 10 percent of the American population over the age of 45, and approximately 45 percent of America’s population over 85 may have the disease.Alois Alzheimer, a German psychologist, discovered the disease in 1906. Until recently, scientists hypothesized that Alzheimer’s disease only affected young people, but now it has been proven otherwise. Today researchers know early-onset Alzheimer’s affects people in their 30’s through 50’s, accounting for only 10 percent of the estimated 4 million cases in the
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