European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW ON TREATMENTS OF ALZIMER DISEASE

Tejashri Vijay Sawant*, Rasika Dewale and Anand Khadke

ABSTRACT

A new paradigm is needed that focuses on minimizing the symptoms of Alzheimer‟s disease and related dementias rather than focusing only on a search for a cure. To include Alzheimer‟s in the same class of diseases as cancer, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, congestive heart failure, and degenerative arthritis places Alzheimer‟s in the realm of medically and psychosocially understandable and manageable. A critical first step toward making this shift is to examine carefully the way in which we define the disease. An approach to care for people with Alzheimer‟s disease results in treatment when it systematically compensates for functional losses of dementia by linking caregiving actions and environments to specific brain dysfunctions; namely the neuropathology of the disease. The ultimate measures of success of such a treatment approach are improved quality of life, delayed institutionalization, slowed rate of progression of the disease, people who achieve their potential, and reduced need for medication.

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