VOLUME 21, ISSUE 6 · JUNE 2017 “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” ~ Benjamin Franklin ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE: Are You Protecting Yourself? by Karla Schmidt, CN Alzheimer’s disease can seem Alzheimer’s Impact on the Brain Eventually people...
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VOLUME 21, ISSUE 6 · JUNE 2017 “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” ~ Benjamin Franklin ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE: Are You Protecting Yourself? by Karla Schmidt, CN Alzheimer’s disease can seem Alzheimer’s Impact on the Brain Eventually people don’t recognize overwhelming, fear-provoking and family members, have trouble mysterious. There are still many Alzheimer’s disease is a progres- speaking, writing, and may even unknowns about this disease, but sive, neurodegenerative disorder that forget how to do basic skills such as what is alarmingly evident is the rate attacks and destroys brain cells (neu- brushing their teeth. at which it is growing in the United rons), resulting in loss of memory, States. According to Alzheimer’s thinking, language skills and behav- Proactive Lifestyle Steps For Low- Association’s 2017 Disease Facts and ioral changes. According to well- ering Your Risk Figures Report, more than five million documented clinical studies, along Americans are living w
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