Nursing Care Plan for Alzheimer's Disease - 4 Nursing Diagnosis
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, affecting up to 70% of all people with dementia. It was first recorded in 1907 by Dr Alois Alzheimer. Dr Alzheimer reported the case of Auguste Deter, a middle-aged woman with dementia and specific changes in her brain. For the next 60 years Alzheimer’s disease was considered a rare condition that afflicted people under the age of 65. It was not until the 1970s that Dr Robert Katzman declared (rather boldly at the time) that senile dementia and Alzheimer’s disease were the same condition and that neither were a normal part of aging. Risk factors Ageing. Caucasian. Family history. Small increased risk - 3.5-fold increase if a first-degree family member is affected. It is more common in women. (67% is in women, and 55% in men, unlike other types of dementia.) Apolipoprotein E4 variant - the largest known genetic risk factor in late-onset sporadic Alzheimer's disease, but wide differences in prevalence of the genotype in populat...