Alzheimer's

I did. One of my relatives suffer from Alzheimer's and its very difficult for us since one time she didn't recognize all of us. She even said that there is someone outside the house looking at her in the windows but that person is actually one of my cousins outside the house tending the garden for her. Its sad but we needed to be a strong family at that time for her. Right its still difficult to cope but she's currently improving once in awhile she forgets but she manages to remember.

Hi, yeah, my husband's aunt is suffering from 2005. And since then she's being looked after by a housemaid who care her 24x7. She was one of the most active lady in his family and it is sad to look at her bedridden. She can't recognize anything and has lost memory a long time ago.

Yes I have, I have worked in nursing homes a lot. I also think my first mother in law had it, well, I know she had it, and then my second mother in law may have had it as several of her siblings did. Sometimes I think hubby has it. It could just be he does not concentrate, though.

I work in the healthcare line, and I have encountered patients who have Alzheimer's before. My most prominent experience with Alzheimer's was when I was doing my final year in university and I had a placement at one of the nursing homes dementia unit to complete a research project. The project involved looking through patient progress files to obtain data, observe patients' behavior and interact with patients if possible. I would love to tell the stories of my experience with those residents, but I think it will be too long a story! But yeah, seeing the way they act (sometimes agressive and agitated) and forget things in a carefree sort of manner really moved and touched my heart.....

Although I have not had to deal with this terrible disease in my own family, I deal with it every day that I go to work. I work in a nursing home on the secured Alzheimer's unit. It is secured (locked doors) for the safety of the residents who wander or are "exit seeking". It is a very sad disease indeed and extremely difficult for family members to deal with. There is all kinds of information on Alzheimer's but one cannot grasp the intensity of it until it affects them directly.

In our family medical history so far we dont have it but I have lots of patients before had it. Now I am only taking care one of them in the house and I am working as her private duty nurse. It is quite hard taking care of a patient with Alzheimer's because you really need to assist and help her everyday for her daily needs. Also little bit sad because this disease is not curable and more and more patience are needed to take care of them. Now that our memory is still healthy and sharp try to do our best to take care of it and eat healthy food to prevent this kind of diseases or even try to prolonged the prognosis. :)

My grandma has been living with it for 13 years!!! That is amazing to me because people in my hubbys family had it and only lived a year or so with it. Besides the alzheimers my grandma is healthy as can be she just has no idea what is going on. She will be 94 this year. It is a scary and sad disease and I hope to God I never get it

no but my mil has dementia now

Yes. My great grandmother had it. Then her son, my grandfather got dementia, the kind that mimcs Alzheimer's. Then my mother got dementia in her late 40s, but her does not mimic Alzheimer's in that hers is fast acting and takes away the memories of things like how to pull your pants down before you go to the bathroom. It is not an exaggeration to say I'm very scared that it lies in wait for me in the years to come.

YES...yes, a very dear friend...but contrary to popular belief it as RAPID onset...very rapid! Less than a year to her demise! Her family lived in Scotland (parents, etc.) and her husband could NOT handle the situation! So, I spent a lot of time with her, and specialists....and one specialist speculated, that the serious on-set of this disease (increased numbers) was due to our overwhelming use of "aluminium" in our everyday life! Cooking utensils, even in our toothpaste, and underarm deodorant, where so many glands are located! I thought it a very interesting theory!

I don't think I have had any family members with it but I worked with people who had it. It is a scary disease. The people that I worked with were often living in their mind during the primes of their lives. Usually around 30s. I did have a lady living in her childhood once though. And there was a lady who didn't have a very good 30s period that she was living in. I have wondered a million times about this disease. Sometimes I have thought it is a mercy and then other times horrible. I know that I don't want any part of it but I guess that is one that we can't choose. Oh..I also read that certain thinking exercises can help prevent it.

Alzheimers disease can be treated. Initial works on Rodents have shown that Alzheimers can be treated and cured with Herbs like Withania somnifera.