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Alzheimer's Disease Case Study

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It is expected that by 2050, one new case of AD is expected to develop every 33 seconds, or nearly a million new cases per year, and the total estimated prevalence is expected to be 13.8 million(Alzheimer’s association, 2014)(Prince et al., 2013). According to Alzheimer Society of Canada in 2011 only, 747,000 Canadians were living with cognitive impairment, including dementia - those're 14.9 per cent of Canadians 65 and older. Clinical and neuropathological overview The diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease dementia generally resides in observation of neuropsychiatric features such as Cognitive impairment that manifests itself at least by minimum two of these symptoms: inability of patients in new learning, Disturbances of language function and

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