Aarp dementia age related memory loss quiz: asking the same question or repeating yourself often within same hour: Dementia

Aarp dementia age related memory loss quiz

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Your spouse tells you that you ask the same questions repeatedly.

Warning sign of early dementia

Telling the same stories at every party is fine (if sometimes irritating), but asking the same question or repeating yourself often within the same hour is more troublesome. You may just be distracted or having a bad day, but if you repeatedly forget what you’ve just said, you definitely should talk to your doctor. Family members are often the first to notice serious memory problems, Petersen says, so listen to your loved ones.

Your daughter comments that you haven’t been remembering things that her children tell you, and she’s not sure if you’re not listening or need your ears checked.

Warning sign of early dementia

There’s a lot of gray area here, and not being able to remember recent conversations is quite different from not hearing them in the first place. But both can be early indicators of worsening cognitive performance in older adults. A recent review in the medical journal the Lancet found that mild-to-moderate hearing loss may be associated with a 94 percent increase in the risk of dementia in older adults, higher than the risk attributed to most other factors. The findings are “especially important because so many older adults have hearing loss, and it can be treated,” says Jennifer Deal, an epidemiologist at the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Researchers believe hearing loss may cause dementia through its effects on the brain, or by making people more socially isolated and less active, and are studying whether using hearing aids can reduce dementia risk, she says.