Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Features of Early stages of Dementia
- Impact of the symptoms are individual to each person
- Depending on their personality, general health and social situation
- Memory Loss
- Most commonly short-term
- Misplacing items
- Difficulty performing familiar tasks
- Forget how to carry out every-day activities
- Order to put clothes on
- Preparing a meal
- Problems with Language
- Forgetting simple words
- Disorientaton to time and place
- Getting lost in familiar places
- Difficulty in differentiating night from day
- Poor/ decreased judgement
- Dressed inappropriately for the weather
- Problems with keeping track of things
- Difficulty keeping up with bill payments
- Difficulty following conversations
- Misplacing things
- Putting things in unusual places
- Changes in mood/ Behaviour
- Unusually emotional
- Experiencing rapid mood swings
- Show less emoton than usually expressed
- Changes in Personality
- Suspicious
- Irratable
- Depressed
- Anxious
- Aggitated
- Loss of initiative
- Very passive
- Sleeping more than usual
- Lose interest in hobbies