Who was Dr. Alois Alzheimer?

All Home Care Matters

Enriched Life Home Care Services

Education, Health & Fitness

5.0 • 88 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Dr. Alois Alzheimer was the man behind the discovery of Alzheimer’s, a neurodegenerative disease that wreaks havoc on seniors, and some younger than that. This condition, discovered by the tangles in the brain along with other symptoms, was a remarkable discovery at the time.

However, Dr. Alzheimer was not always taken seriously with his research, and this marked discovery actually was dismissed by the other psychiatrists at the facility he worked at.

So how did it come to be? How did this discovery shape the world of geriatric medicine, and how did it pave the way for discovering the makeup of Alzheimer’s and how does that help us better understand this today?

This episode will take a deeper look into the life of the man behind it all, the psychiatrist that discovered this condition, and at the end of this episode, you’ll learn everything you need to know about this man’s life, and how his discovery came to be.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care,
0:06.0	with discussions on important age-related matters and topics.
0:10.1	Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services,
0:13.3	the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top-rated Local. Hello and welcome
0:25.6	Hello and welcome back to all home care matters.
0:28.4	If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you
0:31.2	for taking time out to be with us today.
0:33.6	We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is and that's why we try to make each episode here
0:37.9	at All Home Care Matters, something that will hopefully matter to you. As you know, here at All Home
0:42.6	Care Matters, we discuss all things long-term care, with dementia being a common topic. One of the
0:48.3	most well-known forms of dementia is Alzheimer's. You probably know what Alzheimer's is, what it can do
0:54.0	to a person, and how we are all
0:55.9	racing to find a way to stop it. However, many of you may not know the person the disease is named after.
1:02.0	Dr. Alois Alzheimer was the person who discovered the disease. And how Alzheimer's was looked at before
1:08.0	Alois came around is fascinating. So in this episode, we are shutting light on the life of Dr. Alois Alzheimer.
1:14.6	Alois Alzheimer was born on June 14, 1864 in Mark Breit, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, a German state that existed until 1918.
1:24.6	He came from a reasonably sizable Catholic family consisting of six siblings.
1:29.4	Alzheimer received a standard education, and when of college age, he grew an interest in anatomy.
1:35.1	He graduated from Wittsburg and obtained a magna cum laude in medicine. While Alois never intended
1:40.6	to become a psychiatrist, he did so after traveling with a mentally ill female patient.
1:45.7	The patient's family believed a young doctor needed to travel with her. This journey seemed to
1:50.8	change Alzheimer's career trajectory, and at the age of 24, he applied for an assistant job
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Enriched Life Home Care Services, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Enriched Life Home Care Services and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.