Treatment
for Alzheimers Disease:
There is Hope for You
and Your Loved Ones
Although there is no cure for
Alzheimers, there are many treatments that can enhance the lives
of the person suffering and their family. Treatment for Alzheimers
usually focuses on one of the two types of symptoms: cognitive and
behavioral or psychiatric. While cognitive symptoms have to do with
memory, planning, abstract thinking, judgment, language, and additional
thought processes, behavioral symptoms have to do with how a person
acts and feels.
Some of the common treatments for Alzheimers disease include:
- Behavioral or psychiatric:
- Non-drug approaches such as creating a
tranquil environment for the person to live in, making sure
the person isn’t hungry or thirsty, equipping windows
and doors with safety locks, and simply an understanding that
the person with Alzheimers acts the way they do because of
a disease, not because of malicious intent.
- Antidepressants
- Anxiolytics
- Antipsychotics
- Cognitive:
- Mematine (also known as Namenda)
- Cholinesterase inhibitors
For more information on treatment for Alzheimers
disease, as well as preventative steps you can take, call your health
provider today.
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