A Spectrum-Based Approach to Alzheimer’s.
The must-read summary of “The Spectrum of Hope: An Optimistic and New Approach to Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias, “ by Gayatri Devi, MD.
Most people believe that there are no effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. They don’t realize that Alzheimer’s is a spectrum disorder, affecting different people differently. So a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s is not necessarily a disaster.
Alzheimer’s is a multifactorial disease, so there can be many reasons that someone develops symptoms. Genetics may play a role, but lifestyle choices and many other factors can also lead to the condition.
This book addresses the most common daily problems that patients and their families encounter in their journey through life with dementia. It offers a spectrum-based approach to treating Alzheimer’s. This approach allows for finer tuning of both diagnosis and treatment. It has proved to be a better system for patients and their families, with more clinical utility and prognostic value, than thinking of the illness in broad stages of mild, moderate, or severe.
The information in this book will be helpful to both Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers.
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Most people believe that there are no effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. Having worked in neurology and dementia for more than 20 years, Dr. Gayatri Devi, Director of the New York Memory and Healthy Aging Services, believes that Alzheimer’s is not a single disease but a spectrum disorder that affects different parts of the brain in different people. Although some patients with Alzheimer’s become immobilized, most patients on the spectrum are living in the community as functioning individuals.
Alzheimer’s is a multifactorial disease because there can be many reasons that someone develops symptoms. Genetics may play a role, but lifestyle choices and many other factors can also lead to the condition. That’s why the disorder has different symptoms with different prognoses for different people. But when people think of the disease in broad stages of severity, they recall only the severe cases—people in nursing homes who can’t speak and don’t recognize their children.
Many people with memory problems avoid or postpone getting tested because they fear they might have Alzheimer’s. Such delays may prevent them from getting early treatment, which can make a real difference.
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