Trouble with familiar activities
By Paula Spencer Scott, Caring.com senior editor
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Alzheimer's symptom #5: Difficulty completing familiar activities
- Has the person begun to have trouble preparing meals?
- Is she less engaged in a hobby that once absorbed her (bridge, painting, crossword puzzles)?
- Does he stop in the middle of a project, such as baking or making a repair, and fail to complete it?
- Has she stopped using a particular talent or skill that once gave her pleasure (sewing, singing, playing the piano)?
- Activities with various different steps, however routine and familiar, can become difficult to complete for a person with Alzheimer's. Your parent might become distracted or lose track of where he is in the process, feeling confused. Or he might just lose interest altogether and leave a project unfinished.
Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia is especially suspect when the difficult or abandoned activity is something the person formerly delighted in and excelled at, or used to engage in frequently.
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