Warning Signs for Alzheimer's disease

1. Recent memory loss: May forget things more often, and may not remember them when reminded.
2. Difficulty performing familiar tasks: May continue to prepare a meal, but forget to serve it or forget that they made it.
3. Problems with language: May forget simple words or substitute inappropriate words, making sentences incomprehensible.
4. Disorientation in time and space: May become lost on a nearby street and not know how to get back home.
5. Poor judgment: May forget responsibilities, such as caring for a child.
6. Problems with abstract thinking: May have trouble with simple mathematical calculations such as balancing a checkbook.
7. Misplacing things: May put things in inappropriate places, such as placing an iron in the freezer.
8. Changes in mood and behavior: May exhibit rapid mood swings for no apparent reason.
9. Changes in personality: These may include confusion, suspicion, fearfulness.
10. Loss of initiative: May become passive and lose interest in activities.

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