How to understand that you or your loved one has dementia or predementia?
The term “dementia” is generalized, and it’s treated about 100 psychiatric disorders, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and others.
While Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia, which includes 50-70% of all cases of dementia.
How to understand that you or your loved one has dementia or predementia? Doctors distinguish 12 common and obvious signs.
Sign №1: problems with short-term memory
We all from time to time forget where I put my keys or glasses. But if you begin to notice that the memory problems you or your loved ones are aggravated, it may be a sign of dementia.
If a person has problems with short-term memory, he can easily remember what happened a couple of decades ago, but completely forget about what happened a few days ago.
Sign No. 2: difficulties in communicating
If you notice that you find it difficult to pick up in conversation the words, it can be a sign of dementia. You increasingly notice that the word turns like on your tongue, but you just can’t remember it? This is a clear indication that the language center of the brain having problems. The conversation drags out, and you fall into frustration.
Sign # 3: mood swings
A sudden change in the mood — one of the signs of early stage dementia. Patients with dementia often there is depression. It is important that when violations in the brain change of mood occurs abruptly, suddenly and unexpectedly, when seemingly there are no prerequisites for this.
Sign No. 4: sluggish
Depression is often accompanied by lethargy and sleepiness. The person loses interest in life, to the once beloved hobby, and he suddenly lost the desire to do anything. Lethargy is also one of the symptoms of depression, so it’s not always a sign of dementia.
If the lethargy and depression are accompanied by other symptoms of dementia, you should consult a doctor.
Sign No. 5: problem with concentration of attention
With dementia disturbed concentration, especially when it comes to making decisions or when planning. Patients with this disorder is difficult to make plans and follow them. It is also difficult to remember numbers and dates.
Sign No. 6: difficulties in routine work
If you have brain damage, the patient may experience difficulty in performing everyday tasks. We can talk about simple household chores (cooking, cleaning, working in the garden). Can also disrupt the order of execution of work, for example, when cooking dishes.
Sign No. 7: loss of time accounts
When the whole world lives, focusing strictly on time, patient with dementia stops doing so. He loses track of time, and it becomes a matter of when there will be an event tomorrow, or a year.
Sign No. 8: loss of orientation
Similarly, over time, the dementia patients lose their sense of space. Arriving somewhere, they may forget where they are and how it turned out. If you notice that your loved ones is a sure sign of disorders of the brain.
Sign number 9: difficulty in writing
The confusion in the mind is reflected in the letter. Suffering from dementia have difficulty in presenting their thoughts in writing.
Sign # 10: repetition
Patients with dementia may ask the same questions or repeat what you say or someone else. This is a clear sign of the disease that need to pay attention.
Sign No. 11: a sudden fear of change
Suffering from dementia starts panic fear change, since change is introduced misleading them, allow them to remember information, confuse the order of actions. Fear of change can also be a symptom of predementia state.
Sign No. 12: problems with concentration
When dementia becomes difficult to follow the deployment steps, such as books or film. The patient does not remember what he read or saw a few minutes ago. He has to go back a few pages back or rewind the film.
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