Symptoms of dementia in the elderly

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Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disease caused by many factors. Its clinical manifestations are characterized by progressive brain cognitive impairment, with significant memory loss accompanied by personality and behavior changes; Visual space function, language communication ability, abstract thinking ability, learning and computing ability and daily life and work ability continue to decline, and seriously affect the patients' daily work and social activities. This degenerative brain dysfunction continues to develop and eventually leads to dementia.

Symptoms of dementia in the elderly

Memory impairment: memory impairment occurs in the early stage, especially near memory impairment, which can't recall things that happened dozens of hours or even minutes ago. The daily life of patients is characterized by "forgetting" and "forgetting after saying", asking questions repeatedly or telling the same things repeatedly.

Language barrier: difficulty in finding words is often the earliest language barrier in Alzheimer's disease, which is mainly manifested in the inability to find suitable words when speaking, and the empty talk due to the lack of substantive vocabulary; Or because it is difficult to find words and use too many explanations to express, eventually become nagging.

Dysgraphia: due to dysgraphia, the content of the words written can't reach the meaning, such as writing a letter can't write clearly, which is often the first symptom to attract the attention of family members, especially some elderly people with better cultural accomplishment. It is believed that writing errors are related to distant memory impairment.

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Mental disorder: mental symptoms in the early stage can be manifested as patients with self-centered, manic, hallucination, delusion, depression, personality change, delirium, etc., emotion is not easy to control.