What are the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease?

What are the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease?

Gus Alva (Medical Director, ATP Clinical Research) gives expert video advice on: What is "Alzheimer's disease"?; How can I identify the first stage of Alzheimer's disease?; What happens to the brain of an Alzheimer's patient? and more...

The most common symptom of Alzheimer's disease happens to be short-term memory loss. So in other words, people retain their ability to remember things long-term; where they went to school or elementary school, what their hometown was, and so on. But they can't really remember what transpired, say, a week ago or otherwise. And typically, it's going to be a little bit of a memory complaint early on. Remember, Alzheimer's goes through different stages, and depending on the stage in which the individual resides, there's going to be added problems. Typically, people can't do the things that they did before, so their ability to do things functionally will drop off. In addition, behavioral problems also initiate as the illness gets worse.