Is it true that people suffer from "Alzheimer's disease" at a young age? Yes, the plots such as "eraser in my mind" and "great love", which describe young people suffering from Alzheimer's disease, are not fictional. This disease has never been the "patent" of the elderly, and its performance in young people is not necessarily as simple as being forgetful, and it is often easier to be ignored. Today, the doctor will introduce to you the initial recognition and coping methods of "young Alzheimer's disease". The average morbidity and mortality rate at the age of 51 is as high as 24.2%. Young Alzheimer's disease is not an independent disease, but a title when Alzheimer's disease is divided by the age of onset. Alzheimer's disease is divided into early-onset Alzheimer's disease (also known as youth type Alzheimer's disease) and late-onset Alzheimer's disease. Early onset Alzheimer's disease refers to Alzheimer's disease that occurs in adults aged 18 to 64 years (the age less than 35 years is called super early Alzheimer's disease). Young Alzheimer's disease accounts for 4% - 6% of Alzheimer's disease. In TV dramas and movies, the heroine is set to have an onset in her thirties. In fact, the onset in this age group is relatively rare. More young people's cognitive diseases often occur between the age of 45 and 65, and the average age of onset is 51. Its annual incidence rate in the UK is 6.3/100000, about 13% of young Alzheimer's disease is caused by familial genetic factors, and non familial young Alzheimer's disease usually occurs at the age of 30-40 years. When young Alzheimer's disease occurs, I and my spouse are often at the peak of their careers. The onset of Alzheimer's disease will not only affect work, but also cause economic difficulties. According to the death report of the United States from 1999 to 2010, the mortality rate of young people with Alzheimer's disease aged 40-64 is as high as 24.2%, which brings a heavy burden to the society. Compared with Alzheimer's disease in the elderly, it is not easy to find the signs of attention, executive power decline or disease onset in the young. Since many people think that Alzheimer's disease is a disease of the elderly, they will not suspect it at all, so it is easy to delay the diagnosis. It's important to find the signal of young Alzheimer's disease, and it's not necessarily the only symptom. These young patients often have better memory recognition and semantic memory, but their attention, executive function, orientation and visuospatial function are often worse. If a competent person suddenly cannot complete the work in order, or takes a long time to complete it; Another example is that you suddenly stop paying attention to your appearance, fail in things that could not have failed before, forget something particularly important, and no longer care about your favorite hobbies or TV, news, etc. These things that make people around you feel surprised and contrary may be the signals of young Alzheimer's disease. When the six symptoms of anxiety and depression suggest "confusion", patients with young Alzheimer's disease are often regarded as depression or anxiety. This is because the symptoms of the disease include mental and behavioral abnormalities in addition to core symptoms such as forgetfulness. Memory loss often occurs in patients with memory loss, and memory loss is near