Alzheimer\’s disease is a disease of the brain and not a mental illness. It is a medical condition which as such, responds to medication and non-medicated approaches to relieving the symptoms and even stalling the progression of Alzheimers disease.

Alzheimer\’s disease disease can act differently in different patients. Some experience a slow progression of the disease and others may watch as their loved ones goes rapidly through the stages of the disease, seemingly changing right before their eyes.

The same treatments for Alzheimer\’s disease may not always have the same result or work for the same amount of time for different people.

When you are the caregiver for someone you love with Alzheimer’s it is important to understand that the decline of ability to function is an expected occurrence and you are in no way responsible or in control of these changes. The changes are a result of medical issues with the brain of the person who has Alzheimer\’s disease.

To make life easier for the Alzheimers disease patient in the early or middle stages of the disease break up tasks into smaller steps so that the entire task will not seem quite as overwhelming to them.

We all tend to “temporarily” forget things from time to time. When these “senior moments” change from being only a nuisance to perhaps something more serious is when they start to interfere in your daily life. If this happens then those moments may be something more serious such as a manifestation of Alzheimer’s symptoms.