The following journal is a guide to Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) including sections that describe in diagnosing the disease. 
Alzheimer first described by a Germany physician, Alois Alzheimer, that nowdays can be defined as a progressive and fatal brain disease, the most common form of dementia and a disease that has no cuurent cure while researchers are still working on its cure projects.
In the Guidelines, you will be taken to sections describes basic information about the behavioral and biological pathology in the Alzheimer’s Disease, Genetic and Other risk faktor for the AD, Process of diagnosing Alzheimer’s, Stage and Symptoms, and the treatment support for Alzheimer’s Disease.
Accordingly, Alzheimer’s Disease, which is always progressive, is the commonest cause of dementia, it is distinguished from dementia by its cognitive, behavioral symptoms and characteristic order in which they appear. The diagnostic of AD requires many other causes of dementias as well as finding a history and symptoms of the Alzheimer’s. You will be provided with Mini Mental Status Examination (MMSE), with administration instructions and status exam form for the AD screening test that widely used in practice and research.
You also will be taken to section (in table description) about Laboratory Tests used with Dementia Patients, American Psychiatric Association Criteria for Dementia, American Psychiatric Association Criteria for Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type, NINCDS–ADRDA Criteria for Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease, Clinical Dementia Rating Scale and its relationship with abilities of daily life, Principles of Sleep Hygiene, and Delirium-Prevention Measures. All those informations may help a physician in diagnosing the Alzheimer’s.
Complete read of Physician Guideline for Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease can be downloaded in this Guideline Journal, 97 pages/448Kb of pdf filetype (source: ERIC OLSON COUNSELING CENTER UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON).
