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February 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Fiona Macrae
Last updated at 1:30 PM on 3rd February 2012
A quick test that tells if your loved one is at risk of Alzheimer’s disease has been devised by doctors.
The 21-question test distinguishes between normal absent-mindedness and the more sinister memory lapses that may signal the early stages of dementia.
The questions are designed to be answered by a spouse or close friend.
The Alzheimer’s Questionnaire, which is almost 90 per cent accurate, measures mild cognitive impairment – the slight memory lapses that can be a precursor of the disease.
Up to 15 per cent of people with MCI develop Alzheimer’s within the next year.
The lack of a cure for dementia means that some may not want to take the test, which was devised by Banner Sun Health Research Institute in Arizona, which specialises in the disease.
Some questions, including one about making the same statements over the course of a day, known as repetitiveness, were found to be particularly valuable.
The 21 questions are answered with a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’. A ‘yes’ is given a score of one or two and a ‘no’ always scores zero, giving a maximum possible score of 27.
Someone who scores under five is advised that there is no cause for concern. A score of five to 14 suggests mild cognitive impairment – or memory lapses that could be the early stages of Alzheimer’s.
Any higher than this and the person may already have it. Writing in the journal BMC Geriatrics researcher Michael Malek-Ahmadi said: ‘As the population ages, the need for a quick method of spotting the disease early will grow.’
Mr Malek-Ahmadi stressed that it is up to GPs rather than patients to interpret the results of the test. That said, anyone who scores five or above should seek expert help.
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I have taken the test, and have come to the alarming conclusion that not only do I probably have Alzheimer, but have had it since I was a teen-ager. It’s a miracle I am still alive and functioning at age 61. Like Jerome K. Jerome in the first chapter of “Three men in a boat”, whenever I read about a disease I discover that, sadly, I have it; and like him, I cannot understand why I don’t yet have housemaid’s knee.
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I am only 26 and scored a 16 so apparently I am already suffering from Alzheimers. I am doubting this test.
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“To those that are offended by people joking about this condition; there is a funny side to everything. It may not be funny to you because it affects you. I suffer from gout, which most people find hilarious but which racks me with excrutiating pain and cripples me. To be joked about it aswell is the icing on the cake. So it may not be nice but try to see there is a funny side to everything.
– King Canute, Norway, 3/2/2012 15:18” There ISN’T a funny side to everything! People with dementia cannot join in the joke, so making fun of the condition is just plain wrong! Surely, any decent person can see that? I don’t find it funny that my eyesight is failing and I have arthritis at the age of 44. Try making a joke about that in front of me and I may very well hit you hard.
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My wonderful mum has disappeared. She’s 80 this month, has been a bit forgetful for a few years, but nothing worrying. In the last three months or so she has deteriorated at an alarming speed, has completely forgotten who her grandchildren are and the fact that she has grandchildren, who my dad is, accusing him of going out every night to be with other women and leaving her alone, even though he never goes out of the house without her and never at night. If you ask to speak to my dad on the phone she says he’s not in even though he’s standing there saying he’s there. She then says my husband’s not in but you can talk to my dad. She dishes up an extra meal each night, one being for her dad who died over 20 years ago. Waiting for a hospital appointment for her. My poor dad who is 83 looks so tired – don’t know how he manages 24/7, all family trying to help out though. Also look at poor mum and wonder if that will be me, or my children, in later years.
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There’s always hope.
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For those of you making jokes or saying you appreciate your jokes about your own condition of cancer or otherwise, as the daughter of a wonderful woman stricken by Alzheimer’s in her 50s, who is now in the severe stages, let me remind you that with this disease, there are NO survivors, there is NO remission, there is NO hope.
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I would have scored a total 0 before 2005……….then I had children. Patricia from Norfolk makes a very good point, my brain is full, my hands are full, my heart is full.
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Er, erm, Oh sorry, forgot what I was going to say!!!!!!!!!!!
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I live on my own so I could not honestly answer any of the questions, but I did mislay my specrtacles this morning and have been all day trying to find them as they were on my nose.
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I live on my own so I could not honestly answer any of the questions, but I did mislay my specrtacles this morning and have been all day trying to find them as they were on my nose.
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