Clinical manifestations of dementia include memory loss, visual and spatial impairment, decreased learning ability, personality change, and emotional indifference.
1. Memory loss: In the early stage of dementia, recent memory loss is common, and it is common to forget daily chores. With the development of the disease, long-term memory loss is common, forgetting things and people in the past.
2. Visuospatial impairment: the patient is unable to accurately copy three-dimensional drawings, unable to recognize the way home, and in severe cases, unable to find his/her room at home.
3. Decreased learning ability: the patient is easily fatigued and has a negative attitude in the face of unfamiliar and complicated things, his concentration gradually decreases, and his power of action is also reduced to different degrees.
4. Personality changes: patients are prone to personality changes and changes in daily behavior, such as lack of cleanliness, irritability and suspiciousness.
5. Emotional abnormality: patients often have lack of emotion, emotional numbness, crying and laughing. In severe cases, the patient may lose his/her speech and ability to take care of himself/herself.
Patients with the above symptoms should go to the hospital in time for diagnosis and treatment, and if necessary, receive professional care to improve the quality of life of the patients.