Friday, January 20, 2012

Alzheimer’s Stages with the Signs

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What are common signs of each stage of Alzheimer’s? Alzheimer’s is a progressive degradation in cognitive function that decreases the ability and erodes the memory to do a certain task over a period of several years. There are some people have opinion that it is a prompt descent into forgetfulness, but this opinion is wrong!

Read also early warning symptoms of Alzheimer’s, before continuing!

In order to make easier on analyzing the progress of Alzheimer’s and help patient & her/his family for future care, experts design several stages of Alzheimer’s, which each stages have some common typical disease-advances of  symptoms.

The stages of Alzheimer’s are typically classified from the progression, which include; mild, moderate and severe Alzheimer’s. And the signs of each-stage can vary from one patient to another -- in some patients, the progress of the disease may be slower than other.

And don’t directly to jump and take the conclusion, contact your doctor to get more detailed information to diagnose more accurately in order to make sure whether or not someone has  Alzheimer’s!

The following are some Alzheimer’s stages with the common symptoms!

Early signs of early stage

The common symptoms in this stage include:
  1. get difficult to perform some familiar task
  2. something wrong with how do they speak (poor words of the language)
  3. poor of motivation
  4. changes on how their  sleep (they may sleep more than usual)
  5. cannot handle to plan or manage a certain activity
  6. disorientation, etc. 
Signs of middle-Alzheimer stage

In this stage, people with Alzheimer’s start to demand constant and more serious care & attention! Some common symptoms that may occur in the the middle stage of this disease include:
  1. get a problem with hallucinations that interfere with daily life
  2. wandering
  3. become paranoid or even easily to get angry without any reason
  4. and get difficult to do a daily basic task (such as how to go for bath, how to prepare meals, or how to get dressed)
And for the later stages

In the next stages, patient is more likely to be unable to take care of herself/himself at all; therefore patient may need more attention from other people to care them.

And some common symptoms of the late stage of this disease may include:
  1. cannot control their mood to get smile
  2. cannot walk like she/he can do before
  3. difficulty swallowing
  4. and cannot recognize familiar people that she/he recognize well before or she/he does not want or react to communicate with people that she/he know well before!
*** For more detailed information, discuss more with a doctor!