Jing Jiang
Currently, 50 million people worldwide suffered from dementia, among which Alzheimer's disease (AD) accounts for 70% of the total number of dementias. The main feature of AD is the obstacles of memory, thinking and behavior. It is estimated that by 2050, every 3 seconds a new case of Alzheimer's disease would be reported. Due to the lack of effective therapies for this disease, the current goal of AD treatment is to slow down the progress of neurodegeneration in the brain, so it pays more attention to symptoms relief and nursing. The aggravation of disease progress will make patients need more outside help in their daily life. Cultural differences have resulted in Chinese people preferring to live at home for a long time and prefer to be cared for by family members, so most AD patients in China were taken care of by family members. Although the Chinese government had increased nursing facilities for the elderly, most of dementia patients were still like to be cared at home. Because of the family members, as the caregivers, were lack of the professional knowledge about dementia, the cares of easy-to-perform and non-invasiveness were more friendly for these caregivers to help the AD patients to relieve the symptom. Therefore, based on the current form of home care for AD in China, Chinese medicine nursing techniques played more and more important role. In this manuscript, we reviewed the situations of Chinese medicine nursing on AD patients, so as to try to help promote the road of AD care.