This 23-year-old Briton became one of the youngest in the country, who was diagnosed with dementia and Parkinson’s disease. Thus the guy watched as his mother died from these diseases in 52 years.
23-year-old Jordan Adams is one of the youngest patients in the UK who was diagnosed with senile dementia. As the name implies this disease usually develops dementia in old age. There is early onset of dementia, but here it is observed most often after 40. However, Jordan is only 23 years old, and he already began to approach the edge of doom. Moreover, this guy also and was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, which makes it doubly miserable.
However, while Jordan’s no obvious signs of these two incurable diseases, but he found out that she had inherited a gene contributing to early onset frontotemporal dementia and Parkinson’s disease. This gene is passed to a mother who died at 52 years old from the same disease. Doctors have warned that healthy guy that very soon he may lose the ability to walk, talk and even eat on their own. It is expected that Adams will leave this life soon after exchanged sixth decade.
While the guy has time, and he’s not going to give up. First, there are many experimental methods of treatment of senile dementia and Parkinson’s disease, which can in theory be effective only in the early stages when the brain is still faced with irreversible changes, and Jordan have already agreed to take part in any such study. Second, he’s going to give his sperm for genetic test in order to ensure that his children will not inherit from the father of these unfortunate genes. Finally, Jordan is also a list of those cases which he would like to make before it goes memory. (READ MORE)