12 WARNING Signs of Dementia

Mum went on to have Lewey Bodies dementia and bedridden , the constant hallucinations and shouting out to try and express herself would really stress her out, her voice totally changed like it was a different language, very difficult to manage so much so that we had to get her in a specialist care home despite our promise to her that we wouldn't. Breaks my heart that does. She's been gone a year now, just love em while you got em folkes...

I have had many of the above memory issues since I was in primary school, so at 73 years I am not particularly concerned that I still have them. I would suggest that you make a distinction between poor memory and actual progressive confusion and complete memory loss. This can really only be ascertained by knowing that person over a period of a year or more of time. Having seen two of my peer group lose their mental capabilities and die, it was fairly sudden (about a year) for both and involved significant personality changes as well as total memory loss. I am sick and tired of medical professionals testing my memory by asking me trick questions like listing my medications when I know that they have that information on the screen in front of them. It is all too easy for younger people to jump to conclusions about the many issues that old people have to deal with, like loss of balance, unsteady gait, poor vision, poor hearing, and having difficulty keeping up with modern technology. We might be slow, we might often look confused, but for most of us, our mental capacities are declining at a normal rate - as will yours one day.

To all caregivers: Do not lose your patience. It is difficult, but you will have deep regrets when it is too late.

I have a form of dyslexia~I used to tell my kids "load the lawn mower" instead of the dishwasher! lol! I was 30!

Both of my grandparents had dementia. It was a hard thing to deal with.

My mom's first sign was decades before forgetfulness, more like a dissolution of personality. Then the occasional inability to remember what she had said and think it was something she heard from another. What led to her examination for diagnosis was her increasing frequency of forgetting something on the burner until the fire alarm went off. It was a slow progression of about 20 years and even 3 days before her passing, she was bilingual and enjoyed certain food tastes. She basically died of long term starvation, neglect in a care facility, leading to congestive heart failure. Family members should take care to switch to induction burners with automatic shutoff. I use it myself these days and never set off the fire alarm compared to when I was in college decades ago.

I'm 76 years old, and I have a lot of these symptoms, but I can always sort things out By concentration.

Thankyou for that info. Sort of glad to know the COVID brain fog and fatigue will eventually lift. 59 years young with an aging mum with dementia. Should be good for a few more decades yet.

I had amnesia once but don't remember much about it.

Great voice & tempo. Very well done!!

Since having the vaccine I've had a lot of memory problems. is it just me or as this happened to anyone else out there?

This video is spot on. Exactly what happened to me since March of 2020 and I started trying to understand the things that are coming to light on the planet. Some examples: I wrote the word "philm" for "film." I put some cooked fish in the overhead cabinet. And more, but I can't think of them!

Thank you for this extremely informative video ❤️🫂

Nice voice. Important content

Thanks doc! Oh dear the more I hear about these symptoms the more I think I've had this for decades...

My mum wander off to some random places. She plays with her hair whilst talking to herself, sometimes even shouting. She has schizophrenia, on and off dementia, depression, anxiety, high blood pressure but despite all the difficulties she is going through, she remembers me from time to time. There were times she would tell me “you’re not my son, you’re just a clone of him. Where is my real son?”

I cared for my mother til her death at home at age 88. I can attest to all the above challenges which presented themselves over 14 year period. All but one, my Mum remained the kind, appreciative and unconditionally loving person she always was, even when she didn’t know who she was anymore. We laughed a lot every day. There was though a tough battle to manage when she fell in love with my partner - the flirting was decorous yet outrageous, even while in her death bed. Miss you mum 💔

Im in peri-menopause and forgetfulness is common during this phase

As noted, if viewers will listen very carefully, these signs can appear in normal aging, but there are distinctions that signal that dementia is occurring. I remember my Dad complaining of becoming more forgetful since his retirement, after he had a heart attack and was placed on medications. One of the medications may cause dementia, but I only learned that a few months ago. Dad did develop severe mental decline and required a legal guardian in his final 2 years. Dementia alone isn't grounds for placing someone under guardianship. The guardianship application process couldn't go through until incapacitation could be proven. That happened when he was taken to the hospital suffering hallucinations and delusions. I received a phone call from the hospital at 3AM, with the nurse telling me that Dad was having flashbacks to his time in combat in a war. Dad had served in the army during peace time, so he had never been in combat. By the time I arrived at his bedside, the delusion and hallucinations had changed from military combat to a secret police force spying on him. He was distressed when I picked up the bed adjuster device attached to his hospital bed, and began looking for a place to hide from the police that he was certain were going to barge in the door at any moment.

What about balance and ambulating. That was the first thing I noticed with my mother.