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Memory Matters

Explain the difference between occasional forgetfulness and Alzheimer's disease.

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Explanation:

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurologic disorder which causes the brain to shrink (atrophy) and brain cells to die leading to memory loss and confusion.

Occasional forgetfulness are usually age related that is it occurs in older people while Alzheimer's disease is a memory loss which is progressive (that means that it gets worse over time.

Occasional forgetfulness is forgetting the position of some things while Alzheimer's disease involves Forgetting important information.