Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Monica Roccaforte 2011

The 10 most common symptoms of Alzheimer

1. Memory loss:


A person with Alzheimer's forget things more often than a healthy person, but can not remember them later, particularly of events latest.




2. Difficulty performing familiar tasks:


The Alzheimer's patient may be unable to prepare any part a meal or forget they ate it.




3. Problems with language:


A person with Alzheimer's may forget simple words or substitute inappropriate words, making her sentences difficult to understand.




4. Loss of sense of time and disorientation:


A person with Alzheimer's disease can become lost on their own street, not knowing how they got there or how to get home.




5. Poor or decreased Discernment:


An Alzheimer's patient may not recognize an infection as a problem and not even go to the doctor or they dress inappropriately, wearing heavy clothing on a hot day Summer




6. Problems related to abstract thinking:

For an Alzheimer's patient can be difficult to understand what a birthday.




7. Misplacing things:


An Alzheimer's patient can put an iron in the freezer or a wristwatch in the sugar bowl.





8. Changes in mood or behavior:


Someone with Alzheimer's disease can exhibit rapid mood changes without any reason for such failure.




9. Changes in personality:


One patient Alzheimer's personality can change completely, becoming extremely confused, suspicious or withdrawn. Changes may also include apathy, fearfulness or acting inappropriately.




10. Loss of initiative:


An Alzheimer's patient may become very passive and require cues and prompting to become involved, not able to do independently.

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