What are the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease?
What are the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease?
Symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease vary from person to person and worsen over time. Symptoms of the disease include:
- Memory loss. This is usually one of the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.
- Putting objects in odd places
- Confusion about events, time and place
- Repeating questions
- Trouble managing money and paying bills
- Trouble performing/taking longer to perform familiar tasks
- Getting lost/wandering
- Not being able to sleep
- Changes in personality and behavior including agitation, anxiety and aggression
- Having groundless suspicions about family, friends and caregivers
- Poor judgment or reasoning
- Trouble recognizing family and friends
- Difficulty learning and remembering new information/recent events
- Difficulty performing multistep tasks, such as dressing or cooking
- Having hallucinations, delusions or paranoia
- Difficulty speaking/finding the right words
- Difficulty reading, writing and working with numbers
- Difficulty walking
- Difficulty swallowing