Senior Care : Alzheimer's Disease (Senile Dementia )

Senior Care : Alzheimer's Disease (Senile Dementia )


There are no definitive tests for Alzheimer's disease.

But about 4% of 65~74 years old, 10% of 75~84 years old, 20% or more of 85 years or older.More common in women.

It is due to a degeneration of brain cells, insidious onset leading to progressive and permanent decline of all intellectual functions.

Mood changes such as apathy, depression, passivity, irritability, anxiety, paranoia. Loss of recent memory, inability to recall facts of common knowledge, disorientation, confusion, delusion, hallucination, all worse at night impaired attention, understanding, judgment.

Loss of ability to think abstractly; to use language correctly; to calculate.

Eventual gait disturbances, incoordination of movements, social skills may be retained until late in course of disease, course is from 3~20 years, with mean duration of 7 years.


Alzheimer's: Signs, Symptoms, and Stages

耆老護理 : 老人癡呆

現今還未有肯定測試老人癡呆的準則.

但大約發生于4% 65~74歲,10% 75~84歲,多於20% 85歲或以上.多發生在女性.

老人癡呆是指腦細胞漸退化的症狀,由進取不知不覺漸永久喪失智力功能.

情緒改變如離群,抑郁,易受刺激,憂慮,被動,妄想,喪失近期記憶,無能力重覆普通常識,喪失表達能力,疑心重,迷惑,好幻想,夜間更差致喪失注意力;判斷力;

理解力,思想障礙,難計算及運用正確語言,行動不協調,要重覆學習社交技能至無能為力,病程在3~20年,7年後退化會愈變愈壞.