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What is Alzheimer's Disease? Back
10 Warning Signs
1. Recent memory loss that affects job performance. Everyone forgets things then recalls them later. Alzheimer´s patients forget often, never recall and repeatedly ask the same question, forgetting the earlier answer.
2. Difficulty performing familiar tasks. "People with Alzheimer´s disease could prepare a meal, forget to serve it and even forget they made it."
3. Problems with language. A person with Alzheimer´s may forget simple words or use inappropriate words, making speech difficult or impossible to comprehend.
4. Disorientation of time and place. People with Alzheimer´s may get lost on their own street and forget how they got there or how to get home.
5. Poor or weaker judgment. Even a normal person might get distracted and fail to watch a child. A person with Alzheimer´s disease could entirely forget the child under their care and leave the house.
6. Problems with abstract thinking. Anybody can have trouble balancing a checkbook; a person with Alzheimer´s could forget completely what the numbers are and what needs to be done with them.
7. Misplacing things. A person with Alzheimer´s disease may put things in inappropriate places - an iron in the freezer or a wristwatch in the sugar bowl - and not be able to retrieve them.
8. Changes in mood or behavior. Everyone has occasional moods, but people with Alzheimer´s can have rapid mood swings - from calm to tears to anger - within a few minutes.
9. Personality changes. A person with Alzheimer´s may change drastically and inappropriately, becoming irritable, suspicious or fearful.
10. Loss of initiative. People with Alzheimer´s may become passive and reluctant to get involved in activities.
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