Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a chronic, degenerative disease that is characterized by the loss of cognition. AD that occurs before the age of 60 is known as pre-senile dementia. If AD occurs after the age of 60, it is known as senile dementia. AD accounts for more than 60% of all dementias (Taber's 81). AD is the "...process of mental wasting while motor functions remain intact" (Tyrer 215). Because of this mental wasting, AD in late stages tends …showed first 75 words of 449 total…

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