These 2 discreet symptoms scream the onset of dementia: check your parents!

Dementia is one of those diseases that attack for no objective reason and very suddenly. In a fairly short period of time, older people with acquired dementia become helpless, like children. However, if you catch dementia at a very early stage and connect the appropriate therapy, you can significantly improve the patient’s quality of life and make it easier for relatives who care for him.

But how to calculate the disease before the moment when it has already irreversibly affected the brain of the patient? In this case, doctors are advised to be more attentive to their older relatives and to monitor even the slightest changes in their usual behavior.

So, there are 2 telltale symptoms which are very likely to indicate that the disease is already attacking the body. What should be of concern? Here is the first call: when your loved one, who previously had no problem with a clear and understandable expression of thought, began to periodically forget some words and hardly build long sentences. If before he liked to chat, and now, for no particular reason, he switched to short, dry phrases, then this is already a reason to book him for an appointment with a doctor.

There is a second symptom of dementia praecox, which many do not attach importance to – but in vain! We talk about the emerging difficulties of orientation in space. For example, when your father or grandfather, even with a navigator in his hands, stubbornly does not understand where exactly he needs to go now, or suddenly forgets a well-known route to his favorite bakery or hardware store. If such manifestations have become quite frequent, it is important not to hesitate to consult a doctor.

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