What are the symptoms of AD?
Alzheimer’s disease usually begins gradually, causing a person to forget recent events and to have difficulty performing some familiar tasks. This is unlike the memory lapses that can occur in older people. While the ordinarily forgetful person will temporarily forget parts of an experience (and remember them later), a person with AD is likely to forget the entire experience (and will rarely remember anything about it at a later time). Most people have the experience of momentarily forgetting the name of the person they are talking to, but people with AD lose the entire context of what they are doing – and this can mean that memory losses in AD can be quite startling. In the middle of a conversation, people with AD may suddenly forget what topic they are talking about – or, quite literally, who they are talking to. Understandably, confusion is also a symptom of AD.
