How to Recognize Early Dementia Symptoms

How to Recognize Early Dementia Symptoms

The Alzheimer’s Association describes 10 early signs and symptoms of dementia  that can assist Alzheimer’s experts and other medical doctors find dementia earlier:

1. Challenges in planning or problem-solving.
2. Changes in mood and personality.
3. Confusion with place or time.
4. Difficulty completing familiar tasks.
5. Memory loss that disrupts daily life.
6. Misplacing objects.
7. New problems with communication.
8. Poor judgment.
9. Trouble understanding spatial relationships and visual images.
10. Withdrawal from social activities.

Discovering Alzheimer's and related forms of dementia early may allow someone undergoing the symptoms access to new drug trials, giving them a broader treatment plan with more choice options. As well, an early diagnosis can help you and your family plan ahead financially and legally for your future. It's very common for older adults to develop continuing fears, troubles, and complaints that often strike their family as unreasonable, paranoid, foolish, or ridiculous. 

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