Try: Epilepsy in the Care recipient (cr) can have various causes the reasons why epilepsy begins are different for crs of different ages but what what’s true for every age is that the cause is unknown for about half of everyone with epilepsy the cr may be born with a defect in the structure of their brain or they may suffer a head injury or infection that causes their epilepsy severe head injury is the most common known cause in young crs in middle age strokes tumors and injuries are more frequent in crs over 65 stroke is the most common known cause followed by degenerative conditions such as alzheimer alzheimer’s disease often seizures do not begin immediately after a cr has an injury to the brain instead a seizure may happen many months later information references epilepsy com

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