Alzheimer's symptoms are often subtle at first. They start with slight memory loss, subtle changes in behavior, and confusion.
Symptoms Of Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's symptoms are often subtle at first. They start with slight memory loss, subtle changes in behavior, and confusion.
- Memory loss
- Changes in mood or behavior
- Changes in personality
- Loss of initiative
- Difficulty performing familiar tasks
- Problems with language
- Disorientation to time and place
- Poor or decreased judgment
- Problems with abstract thinking
- Changes in gait or walking
- Misplacing things
As Alzheimer's progresses memory problems persist and worsen.
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People with Alzheimer's often:
One early sign of Alzheimer's is the inability to balance a checkbook or properly manage finances. Eventually this worsens until a person has trouble recognizing and dealing with numbers.
- Repeat themselves
- Forget conversations
- Routinely misplace things, often putting them in illogical locations
- Have problems with abstract thinking
- Are unable to maintain a schedule or keep appointments
- Eventually forget the names of family members and everyday objects
Disorientation is another early sign of Alzheimer's. The inability to drive to and locate familiar places. The inability to find the bathroom in the home of a close friend or relative.
Persons's suffering from Alzheimer's disease often lose their sense of time, days, dates, and years.
They can find themselves lost in familiar surroundings.
Hoarding can be an early sign of Alzheimer's. Continually buying items like toilet paper, tooth paste, shampoo, or salad dressing can be a sign of mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's or dementia.
Personality changes can be an early sign of Alzheimer's. Constant worries about money. Accusing others of stealing or people talking about them behind their back are examples.
Behaviors include:
are all signs of Alzheimer's disease.
- Mood swings
- Distrust in others
- Increased stubbornness
- Social withdrawal
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Aggressiveness
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+Bob DeMarco
