Monday 30 August 2010

Hope we can deal with Alzheimer's disease

Most people know that Alzheimer's disease is one of incurable disease. Although it was discovered long time ago and our technology was developed a lot, we still cannot deal with it. It usually occurs in the elders and causes them memories loss.

According to Gina Kolata in "Years Later, No Magic Bullet Against Alzheimer’s Disease", in last spring, Many scientists presented their studies about prevention of Alzheimer's disease in science court which is sponsored by National Institutes of Health. This issue is interesting after a recently research found the method which can be used to find the signs of this disease. However, The result is unfavorable. There are no evidence to support the ways to prevent or delay this hazardous disease.

When I saw one of my relative who suffer from this disease many year ago, I thought that there are some advantages of that's symptoms. For example, patients who lost their memories will not have stress because there is nothing to worry. However, it causes the stress to their relatives who have to take care them. Others always felt annoyed when they was ask the same questions many time and worry because they lost and got danger easily. As a result, the one who actually want the treatment of this disease is the carers. We still hope that we can treat Alzheimer's disease in soon.
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References
Kolata, G. (2010, August 28). Year later, no magic bullet against Alzheimer's disease. The new York Times. Retrieved August 30, 2010 from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/health/research/29prevent.html?_r=1&hp
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4 comments:

  1. Nan30 August 2010 at 22:05

    Wut
    I don't think that the patients who lost their memories won't have stress because they will eventually loss ability to do things and feel as if they live lonely on the world.

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  2. Peter.AUA30 August 2010 at 22:51

    My aged aunt (81 year old) has Alzheimer's and has not yet reached the point where she remembers nothing, and she seems to me to be suffering because of the constant bewilderment, disappointments, and occasional realisations that something is very wrong.
    Perhaps when the disease has completely destroyed her mind she will no longer suffer, but I can't help wondering what she would have chosen had euthanasia been an option.

    As Wut notes, it is the family members who are perhaps most distressed. Her decline greatly upset my father as he watched his most loved sister's mind cease to exist in her body; he would certainly have preferred Slim's choice to the same drawn out, miserable end of life.

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  3. Wut31 August 2010 at 14:56

    Yeah, I agree with Peter(August 30, 2010 10:51 PM) that there are many steps of this disease. The one who lost some of her memories will suffer a lot, but the one who I met doesn't look suffer or have stress. Moreover, the way which she talked is not show any aggressive or her disappointment.

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  4. golf(s)31 August 2010 at 17:07

    to Nan( August 30, 2010 10:05 PM )When I study in medicine,my teacher tell me that people still not demensia or Alzheimer's disease until they still remenber that they are forgot something. It can infer that patient that are Alzheimer's disease are fell that they are normal people unless other people are point out that they are abnormal.

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