A.Ebberbach(fgcu):Alzheimer’s Disease

This is a huge social problem. How can someone be a productive member of society if they cannot remember their own children or even their own name? It saddens me to think that there are people among us who have this problem because there is really no way to solve it. Usually it affects people who are over 65 but there are cases involving a younger audience called early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. This causes a problem with costs because this is an expensive disease to treat. As the population gets older, this cost for treatment will only rise. This is not mentioning the cost of physical and emotional strain on the bearer’s friends and family. To take care of someone is one thing, but to take care of someone who is suffering from Alzheimer’s is a totally different story. This person does not know what’s going on and is prone to lashing out because they are confused and scared. It seems like they make progress and might even act “normal” but that regresses and slowly becomes worse over time. This person will eventually need constant care and supervision and becomes something of a burden within society. It is difficult to be an active member of society when you don’t remember anything about being apart of it in the first place. The social norms are out the window, along with any interactive structure to function within a society. They have become outsiders looking in, aliens living on their own world. This is something that is a horrible occurrence, and there is nothing currently we can do about it.

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