Symptoms+of+Alzheimer's+Disease

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Do you recognize any of these symptoms?
We are all forgetful at times but that doesn't mean we all have Alzheimer's Disease. Alzheimer's patients forget things on a regular basis and often little things like people's names and telephone numbers. In early stages, you might recognize it when someone started to call you "pal" or "friend" instead of calling your actual name. As Alzhiemer's get worse over time, victims can even fail to recognize their own family members and loved ones.
 * Symptom 1 - [|Memory Loss]**[[image:http://topnews.in/healthcare/sites/default/files/Alzheimers56.jpg width="292" height="399" align="right" caption="http://topnews.in/healthcare/sites/default/files/Alzheimers56.jpg"]]

All of us perform involuntary tasks regularly and we don't even think about how to do it when we do it. o_0 At the beginning stages, tasks like how to turn on their cell phone or how to use a knife. Alzheimer's victims wouldn't notice how they are forgetting more things everyday and eventually it can get as bad as forgetting that they just cooked a meal for the family or forgetting that they have a car!!
 * Symptom 2 - Problems with performing everyday tasks**

Victims will start to forget how to pronounce certain words, forget words or phrases. They might recognize the word but somehow forget how to say it or explain what it means. Sometimes not remembering the name of an object is common for all of us but sooner or later we will remember the name. However, Alzheimer's victims forget everyday words and use other words to replace it. For example, a victim might call a watch "thingy" instead of watch. When others ask him/her what that is called, he/she will continuously reply "thingy". Also, Alzheimer's disease can affect a person's reading and writing skills.
 * Symptom 3 - Difficulty in language**

We all get lost or forget the way to Carrefore in Gubei. Alzheimer's victims often forget how to go somewhere that they should be familiar with. Forgetting how to go somewhere, or going back to the place they originally came from is common for Alzheimer's victims. They might get lost on their own street and not knowing which direction is the way to go home. Also, Alzheimer's disease affects the sense of timing and in later stages, victims will have difficulty differentiating day and night. A common situation is that sometimes victims even get lost in their own home, forgetting where the kitchen is or where their bedroom is.
 * Symptom 4 - Disorientation at time and places**

Alzheimer's disease causes a person to make poor judgments. We all make poor judgments from time and time but that is not Alzheimer's. For example, Alzheimer's victims might make the choice to wear boots, jeans, long sleeves and a scarf in summer time, or wearing formal clothes like suits when they go to bed. Alzheimer's disease causes a person to make poor decisions that should be quite obvious to others like not wearing a scarf in a hot weather.
 * Symptom 5 - Poor Judgment**

Everyone has difficulties to solve problems, but Alzheimer's victims find it difficult to solve simpler problems like simple math. They have difficulties solving the problem 2+2 = 4. Instead, Alzheimer's patients might come up with the answer 2 + 2 = 5. They do have the knowledge to solve 2+2 = 4, but they have difficulties to find the value that numbers hold, difficulties to compute numbers. It eventually gets so bad that they will have problems recognizing numbers.
 * Symptom 6 - Abstract thinking problems**

Some of us always forget where we put our phone or wallet but Alzheimer's victims put things in wrong places. For instance, putting a key in the refrigerator or socks in a kitchen drawer. This is different than simply misplacing car keys or wallets, but they put things in wrong places and think that it's okay.
 * Symptom 7 - Misplacing things**

Our personalities will change as we get older, different personalities. However, Alzheimer's victims become very suspicious, confused, aggressive, paranoid, fearful, wary and dependent. Their personality changes can be very sudden and very different from their original character.
 * Symptoms 8 - Personality changes**

Everybody has ups and downs in general, nobody stays happy for a very long time or stay depressed either. But Alzheimer's victims often have severe mood swings like changing from very happy to very angry and aggressive all of a sudden. They might be very depressed when they heard happy news, or lash out at loved ones for no apparent reasons then forgetting what they've done moments later.
 * Symptom 9 - Changes in mood and behavior**

Alzheimer's victims become very "lazy", or passive. They don't feel like doing the usual activities that they loved doing before. They become very non-committal to things, like sitting in front of the TV for hours and watch the same channel. Sleeping at unusual hours for a very long time, and act disinterested in everyday activities they they used to always do.
 * Symptoms 10 - Loss of initiative**

__What do you know?__ 1) How would the personality of Alzheimer's victims change? 2) Can Alzheimer's victims forget who their parents are?

[|10 Signs of Alzheimer's Disease]

What do you know? (Answers) 1) Alzheimer's victims become very suspicoius, confused, aggressive, paranoid, fearful, wary and dependent. It can be very sudden and very different from their original character. 2) Yes o_0