What are some activities that can lower the advancement of Alzheimer's or dementia?

HIGHEST PROBABILITY FOR CAUSES OF ALZHEIMER’S AND PARKINSON’S DISEASE

1. ANTIDEPRESSANTS, ANTIMUSCARINIC, ANTIHISTAMINE USE

2. LACK OF EXERCISE

3. DEPRESSION

4. NEGATIVE THOUGHTS ON AGING

5. EXPOSURE TO LEAD

6. HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

7. EXPOSURE TO INSECTICIDES

8. HEAD TRAUMA/ UNCONSCIOUS FOR MORE THAN 24 HOURS

9. DIABETES

10. LONELINESS

11. SLEEP DEPRIVATION/APNEA

12. FAMILY HISTORY/GENETICS (APOLIPOPROTEIN GENE)

13. DOWN’S SYNDROME

14. CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE/STROKE

15. ROSACEA/AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS

16. ALCOHOL ABUSE

HOW TO IDENTIFY ONSET OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

1. Worsened ability to take in and remember new information, for example:

§ "Repetitive questions or conversations

§ Misplacing personal belongings

§ Forgetting events or appointments

§ Getting lost on a familiar route."

2. Impairments to reasoning, complex tasking, exercising judgment:

§ "Poor understanding of safety risks

§ Inability to manage finances

§ Poor decision-making ability

§ Inability to plan complex or sequential activities."

3. Impaired visuospatial abilities (but not, for example, due to eye sight problems):

§ "Inability to recognize faces or common objects or to find objects in direct view

§ Inability to operate simple implements, or orient clothing to the body."

4. Impaired speaking, reading and writing:

§ "Difficulty thinking of familiar words while speaking, hesitations

§ Speech, spelling, and writing errors."

5. Changes in personality and behaviour, for example:

§ Out-of-character mood changes, including agitation; less interest, motivation or initiative; apathy; social withdrawal

§ Loss of empathy

§ Compulsive, obsessive or socially unacceptable behaviour.

Once the number and severity of these example symptoms confirm dementia, the best certainty that they are because of Alzheimer's disease is given by:

§ A gradual onset "over months to years" rather than hours or days (the case with some other problems)

§ A marked worsening of the individual person's normal level of cognition in particular areas.11

The most common presentation marking Alzheimer's dementia is where symptoms of memory loss are the most prominent, especially in learning and recalling new information. But the initial presentation can also be one of mainly language problems, in which case the greatest symptom is struggling to find the right words

Reference: Samuel Shepherd