Changes in sight, hearing, taste, touch and balance are not very well-known dementia drawing that can touch years before more known symptoms have warned experts.
Dementia, a condition that destroys the life of millions, causes famous problems with memory, language and mood of patients.
Medici, with the help of tools such as memory tests and interviews, assess these when diagnosing the condition.
But now scientists say that there is substantial evidence that dementia starts to influence the senses for many years before a patient shows the classic signs.
This is what they say, they hope that sensory changes can be used as an early warning signal and patients help to be diagnosed much earlier.
They have now called for such changes that must be included in standard diagnostic tests that are mainly aimed at recording memory problems.
An early diagnosis for dementia is considered critical because the condition is incurable, treatments can fight symptoms and sometimes slow progression.
The team includes three dementia experts in professor Andrea Tales, from Swansea University, Dr. Emma Richards of Public Health Wales and Professor Jan Kremláček of Charles University in Prague.
Changes in sight, hearing, taste, touch and balance are not very well-known dementia drawing that can touch years before more known symptoms have warned experts
Many warning signals of dementia are often confused with normal aging. Common early symptoms are forgetfulness, repeat themselves, sudden mood changes, inability to speak and personality changes
“Broadening the diagnostic approach that goes beyond memory tests, increased the potential to identify dementia in pre -clinical stages when therapies and life modifications can be the most effective,” Professor Kremláček explained.
Dr. Richards added: ‘Many patients report that they experience these sensory changes years before they get a diagnosis, but these symptoms can be overlooked during standard cognitive reviews.
‘Insight into and tackling these problems, and previously offering support can be transforming, so that caregivers are able to offer vital emotional and social support patients needed in a potentially confusing and painful time.
“Moreover, understanding changes in a person’s senses can help a doctor determine a diagnosis of dementia.”
Dementia, and in particular early signs of the condition, are previously linked to changes in sensory perception.
Because the situation is neurodegenerative, which means that continuous brain atrophy, loss of brain tissue and volume causes, it is believed that this has an impact on how our senses function, even in early stages.
Earlier this year, neurologists emphasized that a loss of odor capacity could be an early sign of dementia and stuck well -known symptoms 10 years before.
It is not only odor – vision disorders and problems with balance are some of the earliest, but often rejected, drawing, especially in younger patients.
It is thought that more than 944,000 people live in the UK with dementia, while it is thought that the figure is about seven million in the US
Write for The conversation Earlier this year, Molly Murray, an expert in dementia with young people at the University of West Scotland, said for many patients that the first sign of the condition is a problem with their eyes.
‘Research shows that for about a third of people with the disease of young people in Alzheimer’s [the most common form of dementia] The earliest symptoms they had were problems with coordination and vision changes, “she wrote.
Experts have also warned that problems with spatial consciousness, such as too close to people, are also potential warning signals for dementia that can occur up to twenty years before the classic symptoms.
More than 944,000 people It is thought that in the UK lives with dementia, while it is thought that the figure is nearby seven million In the US.
The recent analysis of the Alzheimer’s Society estimated that the total annual costs of dementia for the UK are £ 42 billion a year, with families with the victims.
An aging population means that these costs – which include lost income from unpaid carers – will rise to £ 90 billion in the next 15 years.
A separate UK analysis by Alzheimer’s showed that 74,261 people died of dementia in 2022 compared to 69.178 a year earlier, making it the largest murderer in the country.
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