What are the signs of Alzheimer's?

Alzheimer's disease is also called Alzheimer's disease, which is commonly known as senile dementia. When Alzheimer's disease occurs, patients will actually exhibit many abnormal behaviors, such as memory problems, language disorders, writing difficulties, etc. Because Alzheimer's disease has a wide range of effects on the brain, it may affect various behaviors of patients.

1. Memory impairment: Memory impairment appears in the early stages, especially recent memory impairment, and people cannot recall things that happened dozens of hours or even minutes ago. In daily life, patients are forgetful and forgetful, and they repeatedly ask questions they have thought through or recount the same things.

2. Language disorders: Difficulty finding words is often the earliest language disorder to appear in Alzheimer's disease. It is mainly manifested in the inability to find appropriate words when speaking. Due to the lack of substantive vocabulary, the patient speaks in a continuous stream of empty words; or due to difficulty finding words, the patient uses too many explanations to express himself, which ends up being nagging.

3. Visual-spatial skill impairment: Visual-spatial skill impairment may occur in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. Its symptoms include the inability to accurately judge the location of objects. Some people with dementia may become lost in familiar surroundings early in the disease.

4. Difficulty in writing: Difficulty in writing may result in the writing being unable to express the intended meaning, such as not being able to clearly express the meaning of a letter. This is often the first symptom that attracts the attention of family members, especially some elderly people with better cultural attainments. Research suggests that writing errors are associated with impairment of remote memory.

5. Agnosia and apraxia: Agnosia refers to the patient's inability to recognize objects, even though he or she can recognize the tactile or visual elements of the objects; apraxia refers to the inability to perform purposeful actions that have been learned despite normal activity ability and subjective desire. It is difficult to examine apraxia and agnosia in patients with Alzheimer's disease, and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish their apraxia and agnosia from the consequences of aphasia, visual-spatial skill impairment, and amnesia.

6. Dyscalculia: Dyscalculia often appears in the middle stage of Alzheimer's disease, but it may also manifest in the early stages, such as not being able to calculate or making mistakes when shopping. There are many reasons for dyscalculia, which may be due to visual-spatial disorders (inability to write calculations correctly), or inability to understand the requirements of arithmetic assignments due to aphasia, or it may be primary dyscalculia.

7. Poor judgment and distraction: Alzheimer's patients may experience poor judgment, loss of general ability, and distraction in the early stages.