Degenerative Organic Brain Disease has devastating effects on both the individual that develops this condition and the families of the individual that has it. Degenerative Organic Brain Disease known under many forms of names such as Alzheimer’s disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Huntington’s Chorea, Parkinson’s disease and senile dementia.
Many types of this disease’s respond well to medication but others are irreversable and devastating. Dementia is a very serious loss of ability on how the brain processes thoughts compaired to someone who doesn’t have the disease. – resulting in permanent symptoms. There are no scientifically proven ages for development of this condition and it is something that would be covered by a Critical Illness Cover plan.
Encephalitis is an inflammation on the brain which occurs very quickly and can be sometimes linked with Meningitis. Heart Attacks are the cause of a large percentage of deaths within the UK. They can be triggered by many factors of daily life and pre existing illnesses such as diabetes, smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, age, stress and alcohol.