Forget how you can do fundamental arithmetic, cursing for your children or suddenly noticing that you cannot remember how to use the printer, are all not a well -known signs of early dementia, a leading expert warned.
Known as dementia with young people, the condition has risen by more than 70,000 affected people over the past decade with a shocking 69 percent.
And although the symptoms of patient’s disease differ, an expert has told MailOnline of five important signs that she often sees in younger patients.
“For older patients, forgetting things often become the first sign of dementia,” said Professor June Andrews, specialist in dementia and author Dementia: The One Step Guide.
“But the dementia that people get while they still work is different in nature.
‘The most pronounced symptom depends on their lifestyle and responsibilities.
“It will be something you would notice because you can’t handle daily life, like you used to.”
So what are the most common symptoms of dementies for young start?
“In older patients, forgetting things often gets the first sign of dementia,” says Professor June Andrews (photo)
Struggling with figures and more often curses can too often be rejected warning signals of dementia for young people, experts say. Stock image
Struggle with numbers
“Finding that you suddenly have a problem with counting can be an early sign of dementia,” said Prof Andrews.
This can look like if not remembering numbers, or just keep them in your head while you do mentally arithmetic.
“If you have to deduct seven out of 100, you must both put the deduction and remember where you are in the series,” she explains.
‘It depends a lot of who you are and what you do for work.
‘A mathematician with dementia with young people may still be better at maths than his doctor, but has lost part of his mental math skills.
“But, just like forgetting words, it can suddenly be unable to do fundamental mental math, an early sign of the disease.”
Brain fog
It is a common problem for women of a certain age.
But brain fog is not just a symptom of menopause. In fact, it can also be a common sign of early dementia.
“For young people it is a feeling of fatigue or medication, is very common – especially for parents of young children, or after a late night,” said Prof Andrews.
‘So when people of working age struggle to concentrate in the office, or have difficulty thinking to think straight, they can easily find a way to put it away.
‘The problem is that dementia can cause this type of persistent brain fog.
“This can constantly look difficult to understand instructions or completing assignments, just like when you are lack of sleep, but all the time.”
It is currently assumed that around 900,000 British have the memory robber disorder. But scientists from the University College London estimate that this will rise to 1.7 million within two decades, because people live longer. It marks an increase of 40 percent on the previous prediction in 2017
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Tasks that take longer
Everyone has slow days.
But if you consistently find that simple tasks last for centuries, this can be a sign of early dementia.
“Need more time for things that you easily looked up or looking up how to do, thinks that the second nature was once related to under the 50s,” ProF Andrews explained.
‘I know a man whose wife began to suspect that he had an affair because he came home from work later and later.
“But the truth was more sad. Work he used to complete easily and quickly, took him longer and longer to do.
“He had to check manuals for things that could do without even thinking about it.”
But they can also be a sign of dementia-the memory distribution that teases nearly 1 million British and 7 million Americans
Missing steps in a routine
There are many things that we almost do on autopilot during our daily lives, says Professor Andrews.
But for people with early dementia, these steps can get a bit confused.
“If you get ready for work, there is a certain order of the steps in which you do things, whether it comes out of bed, dress, brush your teeth or make breakfast,” she said.
‘If you experience problems with your brain processing, you can miss steps or get them in the wrong order.
“That’s why you sometimes see people with dementia on the street in their pajamas. It is not that they forget it, but they just did things in a mixed way. ‘
The problem appears in a similar way at work.
‘At the office you usually have tasks that need to be done by a certain deadline.
“But working within a time limit and having to put together everything becomes really difficult if you have dementia.”
Swear more often
Finally, for those with a certain type of dementia that the frontal lobe – the braking regulator of the brain – has absorbed frontotemporal dementia, a warning signal of the disease can cursing more than normal.
“Most people know when they can and cannot say loudly,” said Professor Andrews.
“But people with dementia who have influenced their frontal lobe are increasingly losing the ability to discriminate between what and not acceptable to say.”
This can swear for children, or say inappropriate or rude things to people without realizing it.
“Someone might increasingly come forward with comments that have kept them dead earlier.”
Every person with dementia is different and presents the symptoms differently, ProF Andrews explained.
“How quickly you are diagnosed is a lottery, depending on how attentive people are around you, and how far you go in terms of denying or hiding the problem,” she added.
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