Dementia and Alzheimer's Symptoms
Does your loved one have symptoms of Alzheimer's or another form of dementia?
Alzheimer's disease and other age related dementia cause many problems for patients and their families. Many problems are due to memory loss. Common symptoms for Alzheimer's and other age related dementia are list below, but not everyone has all of these signs. Also, not everyone with these symptoms has Alzheimer's or age related dementia. Prescription drugs interactions and other treatable causes often mimic dementia symptoms.
Recent memory loss. Everyone forgets things for a while, but remembers them later. Dementia patients often forget things, and never remember them. They might ask the same questions repeatedly, each time forgetting that you already answered it. They don't even remember they already asked the questions
Difficulty performing familiar tasks. Patients might cook a meal but forget to serve it. They might even forget cooking it.
Problems with language. Dementia patients may forget simple words or use the wrong words, making it hard to understand what they want, causing an outburst of anger directed at the person they're talking to.
Time and place disorientation. Patients may get lost on their own street, forgetting how they got to a certain place and how to get back home.
Poor judgment. Anyone might get distracted and forget to watch a child closely for a short time; dementia patients can forget what numbers are and how to use them.
Misplacing things. Patients may put things in the wrong places like an iron in the freezer or a wristwatch in the sugar bowl. Then they can't find them later.
Change in mood. Everyone is moody occasionally, but patients may have fast mood swings, going from calm to tears to anger in just minutes.
Personality changes. Patients may have drastic changes in personality often becoming irritable, suspicious or fearful.
Loss of initiative. Patients may become passive, not wanting to go places or see other people.
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