11/17/2025
🧠 Know the Early Signs
November is Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month — a reminder that recognizing symptoms early can make a meaningful difference in care, planning, and quality of life.
Evidence-based early warning signs:
• 📉Memory loss that disrupts daily life — especially forgetting recent information, appointments, or asking the same questions repeatedly.
• 📝Difficulty planning or problem-solving — trouble following familiar recipes, managing bills, or keeping track of monthly tasks.
• 🔄Challenges completing familiar tasks — such as using the microwave, navigating a usual route, or managing medication routines.
• 🕒Confusion with time or place — losing track of dates, seasons, or how they arrived somewhere.
• 👁️Trouble understanding spatial relationships — difficulties judging distance, reading, or depth perception.
• 💬New problems with words — struggling with vocabulary, stopping mid-conversation, or calling objects by the wrong name.
• 🔍Misplacing items and inability to retrace steps — putting things in unusual places (keys in the fridge, clothes in the oven).
• ⚖️Changes in judgment or decision-making — especially around finances, grooming, or safety.
• 👥Withdrawal from social activities — pulling back from work projects, hobbies, or conversations they once enjoyed.
• 🌧️Shifts in mood or personality — increased anxiety, suspicion, irritability, or uncharacteristic changes in behavior.
If you or a loved one are noticing these signs, our internal medicine team is here to help with evaluation, guidance, and next steps. 💛 Early conversations matter.
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