The Effects of Alzheimer's On One's Life
- 10% of people with Alzheimer's are younger than sixty, this is referred to as early-onset familial Alzheimer disease
- The majority of the Alzheimer’s cases develop after age sixty in people with no hereditary history of the disease. (Alzheimer Disease 2013).
- Most people only live up to eight years after their diagnosis
- It is extremely rare for someone to live up to twenty years after their diagnosis
- Alzheimer’s is now the fourth leading cause of death among adults in the US (Levchuck).
Alzheimer’s is extremely common for elderly people and can be hard for people’s families to deal with. This disease is associated with many people over sixty so family members can often notice when a loved one is developing Alzheimer's because they witness the loved one's decline in memory. Alzheimer’s sends a person down a long path of forgetfulness on their way to death. It is a hard way to die and many become extremely frustrated and even more emotional when they find themselves suddenly in an unknown place with unknown people, even though they know their surroundings well they have just forgotten them. People with Alzheimer's are known to have very uncontrolled emotions because of this. Someone can be eating dinner with their family around them and suddenly not a remember a single one of them. This is not only scary for the person with Alzheimer's but also heart breaking for the family.