Dr. Esteban Kosak 
Alzheimer’s disease represents right now a great challenge for the medical and overall scientific community.
Dementia is a general medical term used for describing an impairment in thinking abilities, such as problem-solving capabilities, language, and memory (memory loss) that interfere with the daily life of a person. It is not a single disease; in fact, many can cause dementia. That said, Alzheimer’s disease is the most common reason for why this occurs to the older population.
Furthermore, there are many factors in association with developing Alzheimer’s disease. It includes genetics and environmental circumstances. However, the most important by far is the aging factor. The risk of having this disease dramatically increases with age. An overall estimation is that the appearance of cases doubles every five years till nearly the 90th decade.
In the United States, the estimation is that in 2015 approximately 5 million people had Alzheimer’s disease. Nearly all of them are older than 65 years. Notwithstanding, there is a minor subset of Alzheimer cases that occur in people below that age. The name for that is early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. This disease and other dementias will rise with time. Therefore, it is imperative to recognize early risk factors and early symptoms for providing the best care for those patients.
Alzheimer’s disease has three core stages in which the patient can be put.
There is pre-clinical Alzheimer’s disease, which has no symptoms, and its recognition is solely by imaging studies and specific tests (markers). Mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease will have mild symptoms, but the patient can still carry on with its daily activities. And, finally, the dementia stage in which the mental impairment interferes with the day-to-day activities of the patient.
What can do this tool for you?
This Alzheimer’s disease symptoms checker will be useful in determining if someone has the risk factors for this condition. Besides, there also is the most important signs and symptoms of it. Luckily, it would yield an estimation of the likelihood of somebody having this condition. It is free, and it would only take a few minutes.
- Question of
Are you a female?
- Yes
- No
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Are you over 64 years?
- Yes
- No
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Are you over 70 years?
- Yes
- No
- Question of
Are you over 75 years?
- Yes
- No
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Did you graduate from high school?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have had any family members with Alzheimer’s disease?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with diabetes?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with hypertension?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have obesity? (please search in google the “BMI formula,” and with your weight and height it will calculate you that diagnosis)
- Yes
- No
- Question of
Do you smoke tobacco?
- Yes
- No
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Do you exercise at least 30 minutes a day for five days a week?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with a stroke?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with depression?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have had severe head trauma or brain injury in your life?
- Yes
- No
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Are you having changes in the mood?
- Yes
- No
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Are you having anxiety?
- Yes
- No
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Are you having trouble sleeping?
- Yes
- No
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Does the patient have impaired judgement?
- Yes
- No
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Does the patient have disorientation?
- Yes
- No
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Does the patient have aggression and agitation?
- Yes
- No
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Is the patient not remembering information such as forgetting an appointment or names?
- Yes
- No
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Is the patient forgetting important dates and appointments?
- Yes
- No
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Is the patient having difficulty working with numbers or paying bills?
- Yes
- No
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Is the patient having trouble following a plan or doing a familiar recipe?
- Yes
- No
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Does the patient forget exact location, address, nearby streets, or the route taken to get there?
- Yes
- No
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Is the patient often confused about dates, day of the week, or time?
- Yes
- No
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Is the patient having difficulty joining or following a conversation?
- Yes
- No
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Is the patient leaving things in odd places and unable to retrace steps to find them?
- Yes
- No
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Is the patient losing interest in previous hobbies, projects, sports, and social activities?
- Yes
- No
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Is the patient easily upset when in out of comfort zone scenario?
- Yes
- No
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