Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) robs you of your loved ones. It is even more distressing if it is early onset AD, which normally occurs in one’s 50s. The main symptoms that trap a patient include slurred speech, concentration and memory getting impaired, loss of words, lack of interest, agitation and repetition. Along with medical care, the best thing you can do is to provide them love and care. Keep them engaged, help them in taking meals etc.
We still do not have any breakthrough medicine that can halt or possibly reverse the course of the disease. It is time to recognise AD as a priority. We need to speed up the global efforts towards this. Governments need to fund research activities that can take us one step closer to our ultimate destination. Let us hope that scientists and researchers are one day able to eventually come up with a solution that ends this disease once for all.
Aneela Nafees
Islamabad