Try: In addition to changes in the brain the following things may affect how people with ad behave how they feel sadness fear or a feeling of being overwhelmed stress caused by something or someone confusion after a change in routine including travel anxiety about going to a certain place health-related problems illness or pain new medications lack of sleep infections constipation hunger or thirst poor eyesight or hearing alcohol abuse too much caffeine problems in their surroundings being in a place he or she doesn’t know well too much noise such as tv radio or many people talking at once noise can cause confusion or frustration stepping from one type of flooring to another the change in texture or the way the floor looks may make the person think he or she needs to take a step down misunderstanding signs some signs may cause confusion for example one person with ad thought a sign reading wet floor meant he should urinate on the floor mirrors someone with ad may think that a mirror image is another person in the room information references "caring for a person with alzheimer’s disease your easy-to-use guide from the national institute on aging" by national institute on aging 2011 available at www nia nih gov
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Categories: Sage, Topic, Behavior Challenging, Communication, Emotional Psychological, Medical Physical, Verbal Communication, So-So Verbal Comm, Poor Verbal Comm, Cognitive Awareness, Somewhat Aware, Unaware, Long-Term Memory, So-So L T Memory, Poor L T Memory, Short-Term Memory, So-So S T Memory, Poor S T Memory
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Keywords: Memory loss cognitive impairment communication personality challenging behavior frustration words feelings facial expressions upset confused angry sad surroundings environment change
*This information is listed as a Fact Sheet and is not explicitly medically licensed