Running Head: Alzheimer’s 1
Alzheimer’s Disease
Tidewater Community College
Running Head: Alzheimer’s 2
Alzheimer’s Disease
On November 5th, 1901, a 51-year-old woman named Auguste Deter had been admitted to
the hospital. After arriving at the hospital she was then examined by the Doctor named Alois
Alzheimer. At the time Auguste was already impaired, had aphasia, disorientation, and
psychological incompetence; Auguste being only 51-years-old she was diagnosed with dementia
which would eventually becoming the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. “Because of her age,
Deter was diagnosed with presenile dementia; today, the diagnosis would be early-onset
Alzheimer’s disease, which is defined as development of the condition before age 65.”(Science
Blog, 2007)Auguste’s condition had gradually worsened and eventually started to lose cognitive
functions and had begun to experience hallucinations. About five years later Augeste had died at
the age of 55 in April of 1906. While working under Emil Kraeplin at the Royal Psychiatric in
