If you think that someone you know has Alzheimer's disease, you need to be aware of the various alzheimers stages for you to tell if your suspicion is true or just an illusion. Before you research about the stages, you should know first what makes Alzheimer's disease different from other diseases. Personality change due to memory loss, the decline in communication, and intellectual decline are the usual effects of this neurological disorder which we know as Alzheimer's disease.
The first stage of the seven Alzheimer's stages is where even a health care professional may not be able to recognize that the person has Alzheimer's. In the first stage, the individuals are not showing signs of having communication, judgment and orientation, every day tasks, or memory problems.
During the second stage, the individual may start experiencing memory lapses. These memory lapses may be simple forgetfulness of the location of a thing, its name, or the word which is usually associated to it. However, these memory lapses are still unnoticeable to the individual's family, friends, and even to the health care professional conducting the medical examination or interview.
The third stage is when family, friends, and health care experts finally realize the cognitive failures or the memory lapses of the individual. Signs that the person is experiencing third stage of Alzheimer's disease include diminished capacity to reminisce the name of a particular person or thing, tendency to misplace significant objects, and a noticeable change in his or her's capacity to plan and organize.
The fourth of the Alzheimer's stages is characterized by an impairment in the person's mathematical ability, lessening knowledge about the recent events which transpired, increasing difficulty in performing tasks such as planning a gathering, or paying debts and other bills. Aside from the cognitive decline, the person will also start manifesting moodiness and social withdrawal which are examples of psychological symptoms.
The emergence of deficiencies in the cognitive functions and major gaps in the memory signal that the person is already in the fifth stage of the Alzheimer's disease. The person will start to encounter problems regarding his or her memory and thinking. He will now be unable to remember even his own address and number. He no longer knows what day or date it is. By this time, he will now need the helping hand of another person for the clothes which he will wear for the day.
In the sixth stage, difficulties in the memory become more potent. The behavior and the personality of the individual will start to change; he will also experience hallucinations and delusions as well as start to become suspicious. The person will be requiring assistance in bathing, dressing up, and even in using the toilet.
Total loss of the ability to give responses to circumstances, communicate, and coordinate movements are the signs that the person is already suffering the seventh stage of Alzheimer's disease. Since his reflexes are now showing abnormality, he will need all the help that he may get.
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