Neurodegenative Disease Support
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“Early Indicators of Dementia: 5 Behavior Changes to Look for After 50”
TLDR: This list does not automatically mean someone has dementia—other causes may include drugs, stress, mental illness, or other medical conditions. Seek medical help before jumping to conclusions.
- Apathy: nothing is interesting.
- Affective dysregulation: sad, anxious, crabby.
- Lack of impulse control: frustrated, angry, irrationally stubborn, obsessive.
- Social inappropriateness: shockingly uninhibited or rude in words, deeds.
- Abnormal perceptions or thoughts: suspicious, hearing or seeing things that aren’t there.
I wish I’d had this article 10 years ago. 20/20 hindsight, my partner in her early 50s went through years of prodromal (beginning signs of) Alzheimer’s before receiving a diagnosis at age 61. The list is scary-accurate.
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