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Alzheimers 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.

Living successfully with Alzheimers disease means learning the stages and how they progress so that understanding can take place that makes it easier to cope with the disease.

The first thing individuals should do when facing Alzheimers is to arm themselves with the facts about just how powerful the human brain really is. It controls bodily functions, thoughts, our emotions and our personality. It is at the center of all of our experiences, every action and every decision we make in life.

It doesn’t make sense to argue with or try to reason with someone suffering from Alzheimer’s because in order for the individual with Alzheimer’s to argue or reason back they would have to be able to understand, remember and process what is being said and this is just not possible.

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.