Physiotherapeutic intervention's strategies in individuals with Alzheimer's Disease

Abstract

The aim of this literature review was to study physiotherapeutic intervention's strategies in individuals with Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease is a disorder of the Central Nervous System, of degenerative sort, that results in gradually memory loss, behavior and personality changes and a decline in thinking abilities. The disease affects the functional and social performance due to the injury of specific cerebral structures responsible for cognitive process. The physiotherapeutic intervention can contribute in any stage of Alzheimer's Disease, acting as much as in the support and improvement of the functional acting of the patiente. It was considered initially points like epidemiology, physiopathology, etiology, diagnostic criterions and clinical aspects for a better agreement to physiotherapeutic intervention in patients with Alzheimer's disease. The data of this study were collected in original and review articles, and books about the subject. It was concluded that the physiotherapeutic intervention can proportionate a support in life quality of the individual with Alzheimer's disease.