Dementia and Alzheimer's disease

Is Alzheimer's a disease at all? Or is it rather a symptom of old age that would affect anyone at some point, if only they were old enough? Dementia, the loss of previously existing mental abilities with the consequence that coping with everyday life is no longer possible as usual, is in any case by no means synonymous with an irreversible Alzheimer's disease. Hans Förstl, who has been dealing with the subject as a doctor and researcher for decades, presents the medical basics as well as the diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities in this volume.