It also affects your moods and behavior.
As it progresses, it can make daily living activities and interacting with others difficult.
However,medication and lifestyle changescan help with the symptoms and slow down the disease’s progression.
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Counseling can help with:
Counseling can also be helpful to your loved ones.
Early-onset Alzheimers can be hard on the patient, but particularly hard on the family.
How to Cope With Your Physical Health
Alzheimers disease causes your health to deteriorate.
He recommends being realistic about your own abilities and limitations and asking for help when you need it.
The Alzheimers Association may be able to help with this, too.
There are always new treatments coming out.Bright Focus FoundationandAlzheimer’s Research Associationmay be good places to start your search.
National Institute on Aging.Alzheimers disease fact sheet.
National Institute on Aging.Common medical problems in Alzheimers disease: Information for caregivers.
National Institute on Aging.Exercise and physical activity.
National Institute on Aging.Tips for living alone with early-stage Alzheimer’s.
National Institute on Aging.Managing personality and behavior changes in Alzheimer’s.
Alzheimers Association.Early-onset Alzheimers disease.
Johns Hopkins Medicine.Early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
