Saturday, February 12, 2011

Third Stage--Alzheimer's Disease

                                             Severe Alzheimer's Disease
     In the advanced stage if Alzheimer's disease damage to the brain's nerve cells is wide spread.  At this point full-time care is typically required.  For friends, family and alzheimer's caregivers this can be the most difficult stage.  People with severe Alzheimer's disease may have difficulty walking and they may often suffer from complications from other illnesses, such as pneumonia.

     Signs of severe alzheimer's disease may include:

               1)   Vocalizations such as groaning, screaming, mumbling or speaking gibberish.
               2)    Behavorial symptoms
                      * refuses to eat out of fear of (choking)
                      * inapproiately cries out when they realize they are alone
     
      Failure to recognize family or faces
      Difficulty with all essential activities of  daily living.

IF YOU OR ANYONE YOU KNOW HAS ANY OF THESE SINGS , OR SYMPTOMS "PLEASE SEE A MEDICAL PHYSICIAN"

Second Stage-- Alzeheimer's Disease

                                                Moderate Alzheimer's Disease

     In moderate Alzheimer's disease, the damaging processes occuring in the brain worsen and spread to other areas that control language, reasoning, sensory processing, and thought in this stage symptoms and signs of Alzheimer's sisease becomes more pronounced and behaviorial problems may become more obvious.  Signs and symptoms of moderate alzheimer's disease may include:

       1)   Forgetting old facts:
                 * continnually repeats old stories and/or asks the same questions over and over
                  * makes up stories when they can't remember

       2)   Difficulty preforming tasks:
                 *followingwritten notes
                 * using the shower and toilet
                
         3)  Common behavioral symptoms:           
                 * restlessness, repetitive movements
                 * wondering around confused
                 * paranoia, delusions, hallucinations
In my experience they see people from their past that have passed on.

         4)  Falls short in intellect and reasoning
         5)  lack of concern for appearance, hygiene and sleeps a great deal more.