Essays on Alzheimer'S Disease

Globally, and increase in life expectancy has led to a higher number of dementia cases, specially Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), one of the most common forms of neurodegenerative disorders. The progress of AD involves loss of cognition and eventually leads to death. Currently, half a million...

Aging is a characteristic lifestyle that tragically involves numerous perils and factors that assume a noteworthy job in the mind. As people get more established, numerous capacities start to diminish, for example, mind capacity, memory, and synaptic associations rebuilding. Neuroplasticity is the capacity to change,...

As globalization brings more and more diverse cultures together, it also brings along their languages; thus has bilingualism become more and more prevalent in modern-day society. Bilingualism is found to have advantages and disadvantages — while bilingualism can result in a more limited vocabulary, lower...

Angiogenesis has been suggested as one of a contributor to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) which is characterized by an increase in micro vascular density, size and length from pre-existing vessels. The amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide appeared as hallmark of AD which induces angiogenesis through dissimilar cellular...

The movie that we are going to discuss is “ Overboard 2018. ” This movie is about a single, working mother name Kate who holds down two jobs while studying to get a nursing degree and is in the midst of financial crisis. She met...

Today, an estimated 50 million people in the world are living with some form of dementia, with roughly two thirds of them having Alzheimer’s – a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive memory loss, decline of neurological abilities, and, eventually, the inability to perform day-to-day tasks....

Karner and Bobbitt-Zeher (2005) presented an excellent article “Losing Selves: Dementia Care as Disruption and Transformation” which illustrated a caregiver’s narrative of caring for an individual with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Despite occupational therapy being a profession driven by evidence-based practice there is limited research in...