Symptoms

• Mood and personality changes: depression, apathy, anxiety
• Confusion, inattention, loss of short term memory (memory for recent events or new information)
• Increased tendency to misplace things (often in bizarre places i.e. keys in fridge)
• Dizziness, loss of balance
• Disorientation-getting lost in familiar surroundings, difficulty following directions
• Repeat the same story, sometimes minutes apart
• Forgetting how to do basic familiar tasks once done with ease, use a toaster, boil an egg, put gas in the car
• Lose the ability to handle everyday finances such as pay bills, balance the checkbook etc
• Develop insecurity and begin to shy away from previous social interactions and decision making.
• Muscular spasms and twitches (most often seen in early onset Alzheimer's)
• Behavioral disturbances-wandering, agitation, combativeness, psychosis occur in later stages of the disease
• Gait disturbance and poor motor function as disease progresses