As the Johnson County Senior Center’s enlargement task nears completion, the Center makes plans for a caller Alzheimer’s enactment radical successful 2023.
Nationally designated successful 1983, the period of November is Alzheimer’s illness Awareness month.
The astir communal benignant of dementia, Alzheimer’s illness is simply a progressive neurodegenerative illness which causes accrued representation nonaccomplishment and important cognitive diminution implicit clip until an idiosyncratic is nary longer susceptible of performing mundane tasks, specified arsenic repast mentation oregon managing one’s finances.
As the illness progresses, individuals necessitate accrued regular assistance, yet losing their quality to unrecorded independently.
According to the non-profit Alzheimer’s Association, much than six cardinal Americans presently unrecorded with Alzheimer’s.
Studies estimation that 1 successful 3 seniors dies with Alzheimer’s oregon different signifier of dementia each year.
During the Covid-19 pandemic successful 2020, Alzheimer’s illness and dementia related deaths accrued by seventeen percent. The rise, successful part, owed to the isolation and deficiency of enactment during lockdowns.
Although the bulk of individuals who make Alzheimer’s illness are property 65 and older, early-onset Alzheimer’s tin make successful individuals arsenic aboriginal arsenic 30 years of age. Early-onset Alzheimer’s is uncommon and, successful astir cases, hereditary.
Early signs of Alzheimer’s include:
-forgetting dates, names, and repeating questions oregon details.
-sudden property changes owed to the changes successful encephalon activity, specified arsenic agitation, suspicion, restlessness, and anxiety.
-confusion specified arsenic forgetting wherever 1 is and however 1 got there
-trouble pursuing elemental directions that utilized to airs nary occupation to the individual
At this time, determination is nary known cure for wholly stopping the degeneration and eventual decease of encephalon cells. However, immoderate treatments temporarily dilatory the deterioration process of Alzheimer’s oregon assistance negociate behavioral symptoms caused by the alteration successful encephalon activity.
Unfortunately arsenic objective studies, trials, and probe proceed to hunt for a cure, families and friends of those diagnosed with Alzheimer’s conflict regular with the ongoing results of this unspeakable disease.
In hopes of providing enactment for these families and diagnosed individuals, the Senior Center plans to make an Alzheimer’s enactment radical that volition conscionable monthly successful the caller league room.
If anyone is funny successful perchance joining, supporting, oregon helping pb the aboriginal Alzheimer’s enactment group, interaction the Senior Center astatine 727-8883. All funny individuals volition beryllium contacted astatine a aboriginal date.
To larn much astir the Johnson County Senior Center, sojourn its Facebook leafage oregon website astatine www.johnsoncountyseniorcenter.com, halt by the Center M-F 9am-4pm, oregon telephone 727-8883.
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