The first time I hear these words “Alzheimer disease symptoms” I did not really know what the condition was about. I, thank God, am not suffering from this disease right now, but I am not sure what will happen in the future. Coming back, the first time I heard the words was in a movie and the starring actor, I keep forgetting his name, was devastated.

So were the supporting roles, his friends and relatives in the movie. I was just a little boy back then. In the meantime I grew up a bit and I forgot about this word, but we would meet again…

Later, much later, I came across these words again: “the doctor said these are Alzheimer disease symptoms”; and they kept echoing into my head, reminding me of that old movie and the faces and reactions of the people in those roles. I was taken aback. I was still clueless to what the disease meant and what it entailed, but since this was someone close and since I was under the influence of the negative meaning comprised in the notion of “disease” I went online and started looking for information.



The first thing that came to my attention was that Alzheimer is an incurable disease, meaning that it cannot be healed and it cannot go away until you die. Furthermore, specialists are not exactly sure what causes this dreadful condition, but data points to heredity as a source. This means that you are born with the potential to develop the disease, and you draw this potential from your parents or relatives, who, in their turn, drew the same potential from their parents or relatives, and so on.


This got me thinking that there is nothing someone does wrong before developing this disease, and it is a bit like a lottery. Depressing thought.

Then, I started searching for Alzheimer disease symptoms and I came up with some nasty things. The symptoms refer to the mind. Alzheimer’s disease is dementia. This means forgetfulness, problems with speech, and so on. I will write about the most common ones below, but first I must say that these symptoms are easy to confuse with something else, so be sure to check with a doctor. Here are the symptoms:


-losing memory and forgetting things you have learned not too long ago.


-having problems with common, garden variety tasks, such as making breakfast, the rules of a certain game and so on.


-problems with words, namely patients tend to forget simple phrases and words and they replace them with more unusual terms.


-forgetting information about location and time, namely patients may forget where they are and they might not know how to return to a familiar place.



-lack of judgment, such as wearing too many clothes on a hot day or paying to much for a certain item.


-some of the Alzheimer patients may forget the use of abstract items, such as the purpose of numbers.


-dementia patients may put things in wrong places, such as placing the remote control in the microwave oven, and so on.