'Alzheimer Informational Section'

What is Alzheimer's?
Alzheimer is a progressive brain dysfunction which leads to a gradually increasing
restriction of all activities.
Alzheimer not only affects patients, but also those surrounding them,
as most patients require long-term care through the 7 stages.


What are the most important factors of the indications of Alzheimer:
• Stage 1•Is defined as a normal adult with no decline in function or memory.
• Stage 2•Is defined as a normal older adult who has some personal awareness of functional decline.
• Stage 3•Is defined as early Alzheimer’s disease; anxiety.
• Stage 4•Mild Alzheimer’s Disease; usually there is no deficit in a person with Alzheimer’s disease
recognition of familiar faces-denial and a flattening of their mood.
• Stage 5•Moderate Alzheimer’s disease; cannot get by without assistance.
• Stage 6•Moderately severe Alzheimer’s disease; start to forget significant amounts of information about
themselves and their surroundings, personality and emotional changes become more apparent,
very apparent in some, and incontinence may also be a factor.
• Stage 7•Severe Alzheimer’s disease; speech ability becomes limited to just six or seven words and intelligible
vocabulary limited to a single word, lose the ability to walk, sit up, smile and eventually cannot hold up their head,
the brain now appears unable to tell the body what to do.


Things for you to remember: 1. Never forget to praise yourself for your caregivers efforts to your loved ones.
2. Forgive yourself for your mistakes because you will make them during this crisis. 3. It is okay to feel angry, frustrated, and fedup with all that surrounds you. 4. Remember to think about yourself and your needs too,
you are important too. 5. This is stressful, you are allowed to be overwhelmed and turn to others for help.

We hope our information will be of help to you and your loved ones.

CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN FOR A PROPER DIAGNOSIS