Abstract
As people get older, organs inside our bodies are not as strong as before. Besides the illness from their body, many of the elders are worrying about another torture, Alzheimer’s disease (AD). For the old people who are suffering from AD, their brains cannot work as usual as before and most times, they cannot sleep as usual. Sleep disorder, which is a cause of Alzheimer's disease, is common among those patients who suffer from AD. This article analyzes the origins, whether other factors first triggered the loop, as well as the interaction between sleep disorders and AD forms a closed loop in which they interact and contribute to each other and list the pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments for AD and sleep disorders, respectively.
Publisher
Darcy & Roy Press Co. Ltd.
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