Dementia Signs
You Should Look For

These dementia signs will prepare you for the worst. But more importantly you will learn how you can slow and even reverse dementia and Alzheimers symptoms.

What is dementia? There are two broad categories of dementia:

Primary dementia signs are those like Alzheimer's in which the dementia itself is the major sign of an organic brain disease not directly related to any other illness.

Secondary dementias are those caused by, or closely related to, some other recognizable disease - such as head injury or stroke.

Pseudo dementia is another category of dementia that, as the name implies, is not a true dementia but has similar dementia signs that mimic the condition, often seen in patients with depression.

What are the causes of dementia?

Dementia is caused by the destruction of brain cells. A head injury, a stroke, a brain tumor or a problem like Alzheimer's disease can damage brain cells. Some people have a family history of dementia.

What are some common dementia signs?

1 Memory loss.
Memory loss is one of the most difficult dementia symptoms. Recent memory loss. All of us forget things for a while and then remember them later. People with dementia often forget things and ask the same question over and over.

The most recent memories are lost sooner than older ones, and new memories, perhaps of something that happened minutes earlier, are difficult to retain. For example, a woman might ask her husband when they are scheduled to visit their children. "Saturday," he might reply. Just minutes later, she might ask the identical question.

In the early stages of the dementia, however, she probably will have no difficulty identifying photos of the children, or even of casual friends, taken 30 years earlier.

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2 Difficulty performing familiar tasks.
People who have dementia might cook a meal but forget to serve it. They might even forget that they cooked it.

3 Problems with language.
People who have dementia may forget simple words or use the wrong words. This makes it hard to understand what they want.

4 Disorientation to time and place.
Another of the dementia signs is getting lost on their own street. They may forget how they got to a certain place and how to get back home.

5 Poor or decreased judgment.
Poor judgment. People with dementia often forget simple things, like forgetting to put on a coat before going out in cold weather.

6 Problems with abstract thinking.
Anybody might have trouble balancing a checkbook, but people who have dementia may forget what the numbers are and what has to be done with them.

7 Misplacing things.
People who have dementia may put things in the wrong places. They might put an iron in the freezer or a wristwatch in the sugar bowl.

8 Changes in mood or behavior.
Everyone is moody at times, but people with dementia may have fast mood swings, going from calm to tears to anger in a few minutes.

9 Changes in personality.
People who have dementia may have drastic changes in personality. They might become irritable, suspicious or fearful.

10 Loss of initiative.
People who have dementia may become passive. They might not want to go places or see other people.

What if a family member has signs of dementia?

If your family member has some of the signs of dementia it is important to see a physician soon. You may want to go along and talk with the doctor before your relative sees him or her. Then you can tell the doctor about the way your relative is acting without embarrassing your relative.

As the disease progresses, patients lose the ability to function independently and become increasingly disoriented to time and place.

Wandering may become a significant problem. Patients become unable to care for themselves and grooming and dressing standards deteriorate rapidly. Patients often dress inappropriately for the season and confuse underwear with outer garments.

In the progressive dementias, recent memory, retention and attention span deteriorate steadily. Language skills, particularly ability to name objects (anomia) or generate a word list decline until a patient can no longer use full sentences.

Dementia may also change a person's mood and personality. At first, memory loss and trouble thinking clearly may bother the person who has dementia. Later, disruptive behavior and other problems may start. The person who has dementia may not be aware of these problems.

The good news is that many if not all of these signs of dementia may be reversible. See new brain exercise study that measured the brains in Alzheimer's patients. Those who exercised regularly showed a remarkable 400% improvement over those who had low physical fitness.

A recent dementia treatment using scientifically developed brain games to reduce dementia signs is showing significant improvement in memory and brain processing speed.

It's never too late to get our brain working great!

May your Brain be nimble brain be quick.

Quicker than lightning...never missing a trick!

Gene

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