Watching a Loved One Slip Away from Alzheimers Disease

When I was a child I watched as my grandfather passed away after battling with Alzheimers disease for more than fifteen years. During the time he was alive and I would visit him, I never understood why he was always in bed, and whenever I went to go see him he never remembered who I was. But after he died my mother attempted to explain to me that he was suffering from Alzheimers. The purpose of my paper is to gain a clearer comprehension of this horrible, debilitating disease that took my grandfather and countless other Americans away from their families. Alzheimers, the word strikes fear in some and an off-handed glance in others. The fact still remains that Alzheimer’s is an extremely shattering disease that removes the mind fraction by fraction over a period of time, this could even take decades. It begins as small memory lapses, slowly progressing to memory breaches but then progressively eroding your life to the point where around-the-clock care is the only option. With severe Alzheimers, as we almost hear daily that patients have wandered off and gotten lost. In my own life, my grandfather was not even able to recognize his family members. Alzheimers was a little known disease before 1960, but today it threatens to completely derail the health system in the United States. What is Alzheimer’s? Alzheimers disease is considered one of the many forms of age-related dementia. Previously the neurological community frequently referred toShow MoreRelatedSummary Of The Rememberer By Aimie Bender758 Words   |  4 Pagesand care for Alzheimer’s disease patients. It exposes the overwhelming feelings of a woman, Annie, who witnesses her lover to get lost to the disease. What makes this story so timeless are the current statistics: according to the Alzheimer’s Association (https://www.alz.org/facts/), currently an estimated 5 million Americans have Alzheimer’s and 15 million Americans provide unpaid care for those people. Aimee Bender dramatically reveals the damaging effects of the Alzheimer’s disease on patients andRead MoreSymptoms Of Alzheimer s Disease2043 Words   |  9 Pagesthink one of the saddest day in my life was when I found out my father had Alzheimer’s disease. It took an emotional toll on me and my fami ly members. I believe Alzheimer is much harder on me and my loved ones than on my grandfather; because he was unaware of what was going on. It’s painful watching my grandfather degrade and get worse each and every day. The worst thing is that he doesn’t even know who I am anymore. In this paper I will discuss certain risk factors, background of Alzheimer’s, BackgroundRead MoreDementia Research Paper5756 Words   |  24 PagesUnderstanding Dementia and Alzheimers Disease Dealing with Dementia and the progression of Alzheimers disease through its three stages is often a daunting and distressing task. Most often relatives feel isolated and without help as if they were to be left alone, having no help to deal with the unknown. They are also afraid of having to watch their loved ones become more and more distant, potentially losing a horrible battle with this disease. In order to help with this fear of the unknownRead MoreThe Morality of Euthanasia Essay1414 Words   |  6 PagesThe Morality of Euthanasia Technology has brought about drastic changes in the morality of today’s society. One organization it has greatly effected is the medical field. Few would argue with the fact that medical technology has greatly improved the quality of life. However, with doctors and other health care workers having the authority to contribute to both the patients’ well-being and inevitable death, society believes there should be limits to best serve the patient’s wishes. TheRead MoreStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 Pages10.5/12 ITC New Baskerville Std Credits and acknowledgments borrowed from other sources and reproduced, with permission, in this textbook appear on the appropriate page within text. Copyright  © 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2005 by Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval