How can I identify the first stage of Alzheimer's disease?

How can I identify the first stage of Alzheimer's disease?

Gus Alva (Medical Director, ATP Clinical Research) gives expert video advice on: How can I identify the first stage of Alzheimer's disease?

It's a mild stage. Individuals typically have some sort of a short-term memory complaint. They become more forgetful: maybe they can't remember the name of a common object, maybe forget the name of a friend or a relative or a family member or an acquaintance. Oftentimes there's sort of an annoyance factor. People become a little bit more repetitive in asking the same question over and over, or maybe just repeating the same thing over and over. This creates to a degree somewhat of an annoyance factor, and the individual that's very close to that person, and oftentimes warrants a need for maybe closer investigation. That's oftentimes the one draw that brings people in to see a doctor.