Dementia Symptoms
- Progressive memory loss
- Inability to concentrate
- Decrease in problem-solving skills and judgment capability
- Confusion, severe
- Hallucinations and delusions
- Altered sensation or perception
- Impaired recognition (agnosia)
- Impaired recognition of familiar objects or persons
- Impaired recognition through the senses
- Altered sleep patterns
- Insomnia
- Need for increased sleep
- Disturbance or change in sleep-wake cycle
- Motor system impairment
- Impaired skilled motor function (apraxia)
- Inability to reproduce geometric figures
- Inability to mimic hand positions
- Inability to dress self
- Disorientation
- Person, place, time disorientation
- Visual-spatial disorientation
- Inability to interpret environmental cues
- Specific disorders of problem-solving or learning
- Inability to generalize
- Loss of abstract thinking
- Impaired calculating ability
- Inability to learn
- Memory deficit
- Short-term memory problems (can't remember new things)
- Long-term memory problems (can't remember past)
- Absent or impaired language ability (aphasia)
- Personality changes
- Irritability
- Poor temper control
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Indecisiveness
- Self-centeredness
- Inflexibility
- No observable mood (flat affect)
- Inappropriate mood or behavior
- Withdrawal from social interaction
- Inability to function or interact in social or personal situations
- Decreased ability to care for oneself
- Decreased interest in daily living activities
- Lack of spontaneity
Additional symptoms that may be associated with this disease are as follows:
- Swallowing problems
- Incontinence
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Understanding Dementia Symptoms Recommended Resources:
Northwestern University
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
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