Alzheimer's Disease - Alz·hei·mer's disease ('älts-"hI-m&rz-)
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| Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, a general term for the loss of memory and other intellectual abilities serious enough to interfere with daily life. Approximately 60% of people with dementia wander and get lost at least once during the progression of their disease. |
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Over 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease. Every 72 seconds somebody develops Alzheimer's. |
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If your loved one has Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, secure your peace of mind by enrolling them in the MedicAlert® + Alzheimer’s Association Safe Return® program. MedicAlert + Safe Return provides family notification services so that you can be easily reunited with loved ones who wander or get lost.
"I got my father a (MedicAlert) membership when he could not longer remember who he was or where he lived or any pertinent facts about himself. He was prone to 'run away' from home. I had attached his MedicAlert bracelet where he could not remove it, and that is how we found him more than once."
-Suzanne, daughter of F. Monroe Lawson
Body Worn ID and Membership Card: Each emblem is engraved with a member’s personal ID number and the toll-free number of our 24-hour emergency response center.
Live 24-Hour Family Notification Service and Care Consultation: MedicAlert + Safe Return will work to reunite family members with loved ones during a wandering incident as well as provide key medical facts to emergency personnel. Should caregivers have additional questions during or after an incident, 24-hour care consultation is available and provided by master’s level counselors.
Secure Storage and Online Access: Set-up, review, and maintain a member’s personal health record (PHR), which may be securely accessed and updated online, by phone, fax or mail at any time.
Member Privacy: MedicAlert + Safe Return never shares or sells member information.
| What is Alzheimer's Disease? |
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive and fatal brain disease that gradually destroys a person’s memory and ability to learn, reason, make judgments, communicate and carry out daily activities. Alzheimer’s gets worse over time and is the seventh-leading cause of death in the United States.
Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia, a general term for the loss of memory and other intellectual abilities serious enough to interfere with daily life. Vascular dementia, another common type, is caused by reduced blood flow to parts of the brain. Other causes of dementia include Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, frontotemporal dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
For those times that you’re not with your loved one, MedicAlert can be there for you. That’s why you need MedicAlert.
Become a part of the most trusted medical information service. For over 50 years, MedicAlert has been recognized as the world’s preeminent source of personal medical information during medical emergencies.
For more information about MedicAlert + Safe Return,
Click here.
For more information about Alzheimer’s disease, visit the Alzheimer’s Association at
www.alz.org.
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