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London Marathon 2011 – Alzheimer’s Society

October 27, 2011 By 1 Comment

www.alzheimers.org.uk On Sunday 17 April 457 runners conquered the Virgin London Marathon 2011 in aid of Alzheimer’s Society. In this film we hear what inspired our motivated runners to take part as well as their thoughts on the day. This year’s event was the most successful so far, with more runners taking part and more funds raised than ever before to help the fight against dementia.There are more than 750000 people in the UK affected by dementia with numbers set to rise to 1 million by 2021. Alzheimer’s Society is the UK’s leading care and research charity for people with dementia and those who care for them. Support the fight against dementia. Visit us at http
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Tesco, Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer Scotland – Six months on

September 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment

www.alzheimers-tesco.org.uk This film looks at the first amazing six months of the partnership, from the star studded launch in March, to the fundraising happening around the country. Together, Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer Scotland are Tesco Charity of the Year for 2011. By raising £5 million, Tesco will help fund research, Dementia Community Roadshows and Dementia Support. This year 100000 people will develop dementia. Together, Alzheimer’s Society, Alzheimer Scotland and Tesco will help make sure they don’t face it alone. * For every day of our partnership, we want to help 300 people live better with dementia. * We aim to give 100000 people easy-to-access support and information through the Dementia Community Roadshow. * We aim to help 10000 isolated families get specialist care and advice through our new Dementia Support services. * We will also fund two vital dementia research scientists who will conduct groundbreaking research. For more information, please go to http
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What is Dementia?

September 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment

What is Dementia?

“Dementia” is a phrase which refers to a disease citing to set of mental conditions like Parkinson’s disease, vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy Bodies and Fronto-temporal dementia. However, it is mostly associated to aging and a disease called Alzheimer’s.

 

It often disintegrates individual aspects like awareness, perception, reasoning and judgment which are important part of interpersonal skills and withdraw them from society. As a result, dementia cuts the person from the society creating life dull, dependent and risky.

 

Many people believe that both dementia and Alzheimer’s can be used interchangeably since both are same which does not hold true.

 

In dementia, the person loses his ability to make decision, language skills, loses focus and memory loss initially. With this evolving gradually, he loses his interpersonal skills to interact with the society and can’t do day-to-day activities. And gradually as the disease reaches the later stage, the person loses complete hold on remembering place, time and locations.

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In Alzheimer’s, it destroys brain cells and hence triggers dementia. Approximately 70 percent of dementia’s cases are results because of Alzheimer’s. It destroys important nerve cells of brain which are crucial for thinking and memory process. Transportation of information in-between nerve cells is possible because of a chemical which this disease destroys. This indicates that lower the chemical content, lower are the chances of getting cognitive abilities transferred from one cell to another.

 

Symptoms

Listed below are most common symptoms in dementia disease:

 

Memory loss: Patient easily forgets things and won’t be able to recall them in future.

Language challenges: The affected person will often find it difficult to construct a simple sentence. This occurs due to their incapability to remember names of place, instances, numbers and situation.

Difficulty performing daily tasks: People are not able to complete their daily tasks like preparing tea or coffee, ironing and combing hair.

Distraction: They will not be able to focus or pay attention to a task and will find it difficult to complete them.

A change in personality: A patient’s personality gets altered due to their inability of completing daily tasks, memory loss, sentence structuring.

Disorientation: They will forget things which are known or familiar to them like their age, way to home, place or home.

Withdrawn: They are disconnected from the society because of memory loss and inability to make short sentences.

 

Diagnosis

Various test involving, blood, brain evaluation and vitamin deficiencies are done if person is suspected suffering from such disease. Psychological tests to test their memory, language, decision skills are done. Also brain mapping test like MRI are one of the first tests conducted to find if the person has suffered from any strokes, if he has been taking too much drugs or may be suffering from severe headaches in past.

 

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