In Alzheimer’s disease the brain dysfunctions and the consequence is gradual disintegration of memory. It affects a person’s talking and learning abilities, motor coordination, communication, discretion and ultimately the daily routine. Change in behavior is manifested through agitation, anxiety attack, distrust, violent reactions and the person hallucinates often.

Mind and memory

When memory or concentration is afflicted, the typical problem is not being able to remember and forgetting incidents.

The attention or concentration span will also be disturbed.

The most common habit found in an Alzheimer’s disease afflicted person is misplacing necessary things. The routine tasks appear to be hard and confusing to him. The disease makes solving easy mathematical question too difficult. Other tasks involving the mind become tough, too.

Fluctuation of moods

Mood swings of sadness or anxiety about a situation will start showing. Situations like a career change or shifting to another town is enough to cause anxiety. The unknown worries people.

The mood swings are unpredictable and not found in the person before the affliction. He isolates himself. He may resort to violent behavior, sudden expressions of anger or suffer from depression or confusion with the general ways in life. Though a patient will usually never admit that he is displaying symptoms of the disease.

Speaking and language ability

In Alzheimer’s disease, the person cannot complete a sentence he is speaking. They use some words or incomplete phrases to convey what they want to say and in most cases they are at a loss for the right words. Their expressions often lack proper meaning.

 Motor coordination and body movement

They will react late to certain external cause or have movement marked by caution. Afflicted by Alzheimer’s, a person finds movement difficult. Walking or maintaining body balance also becomes difficult due to lack of motor coordination.