Since its discovery in the year 1906, in a span of little more than one century. the disease has become the 4th largest killer after heart disease, cancer and Tuberculosis(TB) in country like the US, the U. K, Japan And other developed countries where Average life span of an individual is above 60. Any people above 60 is vulnerable to this disease. the chances of vulnerability to the disease increases as the people above 60 keeps on gaining age higher than 60. the older the age of a person, the more vulnerable a person becomes to this disease.

The disease is more commonly known as the disease of memory loss of the elderly people or the disease of forgetfulness as the affected people begin gradually to loose from his or her memory whatever he or she has store in their brain. As a result of this an affected person forgets name even of his near and dear, friends, relatives. He or she even forgets faces even of his or her son, daughter and others known to him or her. The affected person forgets many details of his daily activities and his or her life this is why a person suffering from this disease has to depend on others for almost every kind of activities of life.

What is the precise reason of this Alzheimer Disease? No one knows the answer. The discipline of modern medicine is still groping in the darkness to find the exact reason behind the onset of the disease, more particularly in the elderly people of our species of mankind. The progress of science and technology, especially the progress of medical sciences in the last hundred years , and our strong will power to fight against the dreaded diseases of human species have enabled us to conquer many infectious and non-infectious disease, such as T. B, Cholera. Malaria and other numerous diseases for which drug cure is available as protection against those diseases.

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