with alzheimers what are the affects on the persons memory?

Answer 1

Devastating! My mum has it & cannot remember what sentence she has started to finish it! She's only had it a few years but she can't remember names - even mine sometimes. Distant memories can be good at times but it's the more recent that is very poor. It leaves them devoid of functioning memories in the end - like how to deal with day to day living. Very sad,.

Answer 2

Definitely depends on the stage. In the early stages it's not too disruptive. More like the person is forgetful. My grandfather was easily startled and disoriented but he continuued to work and function. In the later stages you start to forget things like where you live and how to put on clothes or where the bathroom is. How to swallow. It's extremely impossible to live on your own. There is a decline. It's very hard on the family members, for example when your own mother doesn't know who you are (your mother is supposed to love you) and you have to change her diapers etc. In the later stages you don't know that you need to eat, how to get a glass of water or where your bed or bedroom is. Or that you need to sleep. It's very difficult. You should try visiting a nursing home where some folks there have alzheimers.

Answer 3

It varies. When my dad was affected by it I was stunned, as up til that one particular second I was totally unaware. One minute he was sitting there talking to me, and the next when I looked up at him he had this strange look in his eyes that sent a warning alarm through my system. By that night his total concept of time, place and
recognition was totally skewed. The next morning he accused me of feeding him porridge for supper ( he thought it was 6PM) at noon he accused me of starving him, at supper time it was the same thing, and the next day he didn't know who I was. Alzheimer's can creep up on a person gradually, or it can catch you totally off guard. My oldest brother had Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's gradually claimed his mind. I often wonder if it was the drugs that my father and brother were being prescribed that made this happen, or would it have happened anyway. I ache for the families who have to go through this.

Answer 4

My great grandmother had this. She was born in 1915, and when I was born (1990) she started to show signs of it. Sometimes she thought it was 1950, sometimes she thought I was my mother since I look a lot like her when she was my age. Almost everyday she would ask about people who had died. When we told her the year and there was no possible way they were still alive, she would get violent and deny it all. She died last year, and as she started to 'fade away' she didn't know who anyone was at all. It was painful to see her so helpless.

Answer 5

With time, the affects are bad. Forgeting where you put things at first.... but evetually, alzheimers will make your lungs forget to breathe and your heart to forget to beat.

Answer 6

its liek looking at a big chandalier ( theperson with alzheimers) and watching it go out bulb by bulb..its sad... my moms been in a nursing home for 2 years now, she'll never leave..shes also got dementia.. she no longer reecognizes me...natures creulest joke

Answer 7

Since everyone else's replies seem to be funny- just the few I read- it causes people to forget the simple things, people they know, things like turning on or off stuff, it can be very devastating.

Answer 8

their mind and thoughts feels like its gone up in smoke that you cant explain it. getting lost not rembering where a place is. i also have memory lost.

Answer 9

Wats th cuestun

Answer 10

Ive forgotten.