Dementia of the Alzheimer’s type is a chronic and progressive degenerative disease that affects more than 4.5 million Americans and is listed as the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Considering that most cases of Alzheimer’s disease occur in people over the age of sixty-five, the risk for developing the disease is greatly increased with age (Porth, 959).
Pathophysiology
Older adult patients customarily have less brain weight than a younger person thus elderly people have an increased amount of space in the skull. As aging continues the cerebral sulci widen in turn narrowing the gyri and enlarging the ventricles in the brain. Alzheimer’s causes an accelerated reaction compared to person the same age without the disease.
Pathophysiology
Older adult patients customarily have less brain weight than a younger person thus elderly people have an increased amount of space in the skull. As aging continues the cerebral sulci widen in turn narrowing the gyri and enlarging the ventricles in the brain. Alzheimer’s causes an accelerated reaction compared to person the same age without the disease.