Alzheimer Disease can cause a person to show behavior that they normally wouldn’t. This means that you, as a caregiver, will be faced with many challenges as you try to give your patient the best care that you can.

Some of the challenges that you face include physical aggression, verbal aggression, mood swings, wandering, repetition of words, and combativeness.

All of these changes in behaviour can lead to a great deal of tension and frustrations for both you and your patient. The most important thing that you need to remember is that your Alzheimer patient isn’t behaving this way on purpose. Their behavior is simply the result of their disease so you need avoid analyzing the situation and looking for solutions when there are none.

There are some common behavior changes that you can expect to see in a person who has Alzheimer Disease. This includes:

Reactions in an overactive environment. Alzheimer patients can become over-stimulated to the point where they display behavior that is very confusing.

Physical discomfort due to medications.

Physical discomfort due to any other illnesses. Your patient may already be confused and when you add another illness into the mixture the end result can be a big behavior change.

The inability to recognize familiar people, things, places, and memories.

Your patient may find it difficult to complete an activity or task, or it may take them a long time to accomplish it.

Your patient may find it difficult to communicate. Their language skills will become more and more impaired depending on what stage of the disease they are at.

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