Frequent falling could be an early signal of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study published in October 2021 in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience.
Some people with dementia lose their sense of social norms. Surprising dementia symptoms can include shoplifting, breaking into someone’s house.
When a person loses the ability to move their eyes normally, it’s known as “reduced gaze.” We move our eyes frequently and track objects without even knowing we’re doing it.
People with dementia will sometimes eat nonfood objects or foods that are rancid or spoiled.
Searching for the right word is fairly common. But forgetting not just the names of objects, but what they’re used for, is an early dementia symptom.