- Introduction
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Prevention
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Caregiving
- Coping with Emotional Changes
- Coping with Memory Loss
- Costs and Insurance
- Creating a Daily Routine
- Exercise
- Health and Wellbeing of the Caregiver
- Home Safety Adjustments
- Mental Exercises
- Respite Care
- Talking to Children about Alzheimer's
- Talking to Friends about Alzheimer's
- Telling Someone They Have Alzheimer's
- Transition to Assisted Living
- Transition to Nursing Home
- Work
- Related Conditions
- Resources
Q: What are the stages of Alzheimer's disease?
Christine Kennard wrote an excellent post here titled Seven Stages of Alzheimer's Disease. This should help you. There have been other replies to this question that are also helpful. A three stage scale is occasionally used, but the seven stage scale is most often referred to.
Carol
I don't know
short term memory loss
My Mom is in 4th stage which near the end. She has no control over anything. She doesn't even know me at all.Even I am with her more than 4 hours. She cries all the time,very combative, very stubborn. This is what I have been told.
Stages of Dementia
Early Stage
- 1 No difficulties noticed by the person or by other people
- 2 Forgetfulness stage
- Misplaces familiar objects, forgets names of friends
- May experience some difficulties in demanding social / occupational situations
- 3 Early Confusional Stage: Mild Cognitive Decline
- Getting lost in unfamiliar places
- Leaving tasks unfinished
- Difficulties remembering the right word for an object
- May be unable to interpret, access, sort or condense information
- May become worried that s/he is not coping
- 4 Late Confusional Stage: Moderate Cognitive Decline
- Changes become obvious to family and friends
- Behaviour may be unusual enough to cause alarm
- Concentration may become a problem
- May become disorientated away from familiar surrounding
- 5 Moderately Severe Cognitive Declline
- May recognise a person as being familiar but not be able to remember exactly what the relationship to that person is; beyond that may not be able to recognise people who are quite well known and may deny having ever met them
- Difficulty recalling address, phone number, day of the week etc
- Confused in familiar surroundings
Middle Stage Dementia
- 6 May still know own name, depends on others for day-to-day needs
- May become incontinent
- Personality / emotional changes - delusions, agitation, aggression
- Obsessive or repetitive behavior
- Lost sense of self, may become clingy
Late Stage Dementia
- 7 Verbal communication breaks down
- Loses ability to speak, understand, walk or maintain a sitting position
- Probably incontinent and swallowing reflex may be lost
- May have become very passive
not talking or responding to questions
wondering the house or street looking for posesions
non stop talking about past
forget their age
not awear of surroundings
for example its 3 in the morning 10 degrees outside do i get in my car (this person has drivin for 8 years) or do i go back in this warm house that i just came out of.. im mean common sence is gone...
repeating him/herself
excessive explaint of why he/she misses his/her late spouse
this person is my granfather i hav been living woth him for two months aftr he was moved to a new house down were i live my dad has been taking care of him for 3 years and grandmabut she just died 9 months ago ..my grandfather wakes up frm his rocking chair and looks for his wife and is so sad when we have to retell him she died 9 months ago its horrible to hav to tell him and watch his expression over and over im 15 years old and i love him but he barely knws me now 5 hours ago i woke up to a man screaming help outside my window i had no dea who or wat it was and i run in to my dads room after listening to the crys for 15mins and i tell him thres someone outside screaming help and he hears it and emedietly call 911 and then he loks outside afriad of wat it could be and he sees his father on the groud crying not knwing were he is and not being able to move becuz his hip knee and back are hurting frm the fall his face is bleeding frm everywereand its horrible .. im for news about himbut he might day xmas day the doctors say he got hypothermia and hes kidney are his body temp. went down to 96 degrees and he isnt doing we are still waiting on more news
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