An online Alzheimers Disease Resource providing information on dementia and alzheimer's disease which is a dementia similar to senile dementia.  Alzheimer Disease stages include impaired memory followed by diminished thought and speech and finally complete powerlessness and inability to act.  Patients may suffer a rapid and progressive loss of memory accompanied by hallucinations, disorientation in time and space, paranoia, behavioral disorders and language disorder.

Alzheimer's Symptoms

Signs of the beginning or early stages of Alzheimer's disease, patients may exhibit:

• Memory loss
• Difficulty in carrying out responsibilities
• Language problems
• Mood or behavior changes
• Personality changes
• Loss of initiative
• Problems with abstract thinking

Alzheimers Answers: Alzheimer's symptoms may also include patients repeating over and over again the same things again and again, asking the same questions, having trouble finding the right word in conversation and often use indirect ways of expressing things. Work performance may not be sufficient and often starts a bit later due to present delusions, including blaming incidental, relative, hidden or the removal of related affairs.

Alzheimer's Disease and Treatment

Treatment of behavioral and psychological symptoms of alzheimers disease and the associated disorders (anxiety, depression, sleep disturbances, etc.) requires an assessment of the patient before prescribing any medicine.  Most often, the disease progresses despite treatment,  General measures of non-drug-related treatment of dementia are also applicable in Alzheimer disease.