My story is about those wonderful people whom I have cared for over the past 20 years and who are struck down with the most overlooked and devastating disease that could befall a human being. Alzheimer's Type Dementia. For one main reason. Even today, in the world of wonders and marveled technology in the field of medicine, they are still unable to definitely diagnosis Alzheimer's with any known test available. The only way to positively diagnosis Alzheimers is after the person who is suspected to have it is deceased and an autoposy is performed.
Doctors mostly diagnosis because of the symptoms that the patient presents.
Another misconception is that it is only in the elderly. It can strike anyone and has been documented in cases where the patients exhibited early stage symptoms when only in their early 40's or 50's. I have seen them from the earliest starting point of this disease up thru the final stages and even to their deaths. I've seen how some are overlooked, for a time, by family whose hearts are broken and scared. They simply don't know or understand what is happening to their loved one, only that they can't handle them anymore or care for them properly.