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WORLD ALZHEMER'S DAY 2010

Know Your Brain

WAD Program

Activities of ARDSI-Delhi Chapter

 

 


Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease

Inability to perform physical tasks such as dressing, eating (Apraxia)

Loss of ability in comprehension of spoken or written language (Aphasia)

Delusions

Easily lost and confused

Inability to learn new mental tasks

Loss of judgment, reason, and cognitive abilities

Loss of inhibitions and belligerence

Social withdrawal

Visual hallucinations

In end-stage Alzheimer's disease, patients may become bedridden and need help with eating and getting out of bed to use the bathroom. Patients also may experience convulsions and seizures and may become incontinent.

It’s all right if you forget…….

How to find your way around your home or the way upstairs.
Whether it is Monday or Wednesday
Why you went to the next room,
Where you left your keys.

It’s not all right if you forget……

That you have already had breakfast and ask for it again,
How to make a telephone call,
How to find your way around your home…
The names of your spouse or children,
Whether it is summer or winter