Promoting awareness for a Alzheimer free world

September 21^st is World Alzheimer’s Day. This day was started by an initiative of the Alzheimer organizations all across the world, to promote awareness about this disease and its cure. Alzheimer is a disease that is the most common form of dementia among adults. This disease affects that part of the brain that controls memory and thought. Hence the people afflicted with this disease are unable to carry out even their normal routine activities. This disease affects older people generally above age 64. Every 68 seconds, one person in the world is getting afflicted with this disease. By now almost 18million people are suffering from Alzheimer. And by 2025, it is expected to grow to figures crossing 34 million.

Alzheimer disease is often called a family disease because watching your family member or your loved one suffer affects the other people also. Alzheimer is the sixth leading cause of death in U.S. and one among the top ten diseases that cannot be cured, prevented or even slowed.

The people whose family members are suffering from this terrible disease wear purple to promote awareness about this disease and also as an attempt to find a cure for this disease. Standing with the ones affected by this disease is a great thing for them. That’s perhaps their biggest cure and support. We should also understand this fact that if they cannot be brought back to normal again, they should be given as much happiness as possible during their lifetime. Many youngsters have started visiting health care centers where people affected by this disease and isolated by their family members live. Doctors are still holding diagnosis for devising the cure of this disease, yet it’s not known till now. On the basis of findings from decades of research, in April 2011, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Alzheimer’s Association revised the diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer’s disease and characterized research guidelines. The previous criteria of 1985 focused on the later stages of the disease i.e. after the patient showed Alzheimer’s symptoms. The newly revised criteria cover the full spectrum of the disease as it gradually changes over many years, starting with preclinical changes in the brain that is likely to occur before any symptoms are noticed, progressing to mild cognitive impairment, and eventually memory loss. This September 21^st you go purple and take initiative to face if not able to end Alzheimer’s disease completely.

~ by siticable on September 20, 2012.