<Psychology>
Mi Kyung Kim
September 13, 2012
Alzheimer's Disease: The Forgetting
1. Why do you think Alzheimer's disease is so much more common now that it was in the past? Explain your answer in detail.
- I think the development of technology makes Alzheimer's disease is much more common now. For example, most of people have cell phone, and it remembers all of people's information such as phone number, birthday, and where they live. So, people do not have to remember people's information. So, the memory of people is decreased. Also, some other reason is that the age. Most of people get Alzheimer's disease when they become old.
2. How is Alzheimer's an economic issue?
- When people retired, in government, they give regular amount of money to retired people. However, if people get Alzheimer's diseases, they cannot work, so they cannot help retiring. So, the government need many money, but the retired people cannot work so they cannot earn money. If it will be lasted, the revenue of government will be decreased.
3. Explain how Alzheimer's disease was "discovered".
- The Alzheimer's disease was discovered by German psychiatric doctor , Alzheimer. One day, he met some woman. She had problem in memory and some other physical problems. He found that her brain had become shriveled and some of thing in the brain had disappeared.
- The Alzheimer's disease was discovered by German psychiatric doctor , Alzheimer. One day, he met some woman. She had problem in memory and some other physical problems. He found that her brain had become shriveled and some of thing in the brain had disappeared.
4. Explain the concept that Alzheimer's robs you of your identity.
- I cannot remember myself that some information about me such as address, name, or number. Also, I cannot remember not only the my information, but also family. If we do not remember about ourselves, we wonder who are we and who family are. Although people say about person who get the Alzheimer's disease, people cannot believe that information, so they can lose their identity.
5. Describe the process that Alzheimer's disease follows.
- The Alzheimer's disease's process is not same. Some people can be fast, and some people can be slow. At first, people can do daily life, but the memory starts decreasing. For example, people start to forget often. Second, people become to hard to do daily life, the example of that is to forget that people fire, or get lost. Third stage is that people get huge problems physically. People cannot eat food, or incontinent. So, family need to help and concentrate.
- The Alzheimer's disease's process is not same. Some people can be fast, and some people can be slow. At first, people can do daily life, but the memory starts decreasing. For example, people start to forget often. Second, people become to hard to do daily life, the example of that is to forget that people fire, or get lost. Third stage is that people get huge problems physically. People cannot eat food, or incontinent. So, family need to help and concentrate.
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