- Lasts
2-4 years
- Judgement
decreases
- Repeats
things words & actions
- Recent
memory loss
- Progressive
forgetfulness
- Loss
of Spontaneity
- Too
easily confused
- Personality
changes
- Gets
disorientated (time & place)
- Less
outgoing
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Lasts 2-12 years-(Longest Stage)
- Increased
memory loss- Hard to recognize family
and friends.
- Some
muscle twitching and jerking
- Can’t
retain new experiences
- Gets
lost and wanderers.
- Irritable,
suspicious, anxious, catastrophic
reactions and sleep disturbances
begin
- Restless-
mostly late afternoon and evening
- Hard
to think
- Vocabulary
decreases
- Confusing
speech
- Can’t
read.
- Needs
more and more supervision
- Hallucinates
- Needs
help with personal care, eating,
bathing, toiling, etc
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- Lasts
1-3 years and ends in death
- Increased
need for oral stimulation-Hard to
swallow
- Severe
weight loss
- Loss
of speech
- Needs
to sleep more & more, coma.
- Inability
to perform any self-care, incontinence.
- Total
dependency
- Extremely
irritable
- Inability
to walk, sit-up
- Unable
to recognize self & others.
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