Memory

I am all too familiar with memory related disorders because of my late grandmother. The last five years of her life were probably not the best because she was diagnosed with dementia. She suffered from severe memory loss and as time went on she was unable to communicate her needs and take care of herself. My grandmother had thirteen children and was unable to remember who they were and she often confused one of them for another. She had no sense of time and could never remember what month, day or year it was, but she was able to remember things from when she was a young lady. She would as a lot of the same questions too. It was pretty awful watching your family members go through something that is not very treatable. There are clinical trials and medications that can delay the progression and help with the different symptoms of dementia. There are pharmacological trials that happen in phases and they start with testing on a few people and then a larger group. When results are shown an even bigger group is used to get more information. After those stages and it is approved by the FDA the drug is eligible to be sold on the market. They also use clinical trials that have no drug effect at all and those just use placebos and make that patient improve because they believe that they are improving thus improving the quality of life.