BEHAVIORS / BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH AD/DAT
CONSULTING AND EDUCATION UNLIMITED
MARGARET RAY, RN, NHA.
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COGNITIVE & NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS
· AGNOSIA   (perception loss)
· APHASIA   (lose use of language)
· APRAXIA    (loss of voluntary motor movement)
· DISORIENTATION
· IMPAIRED LEARNING
· MEMORY IMPAIRMENT

BEHAVIORAL & PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS
· APATHY
· CATASTROPHIC REACTIONS
· DEPRESSION
· LOSS OF INTERNAL CLOCK
· CONFABULATION
· DELUSIONS
· DIFFICULTY ADJUSTING TO NEW SITUATIONS
· DIMINISHED INHIBITIONS
· HALLUCINATIONS
· HIDING THINGS
· IMPROPER SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
· DECREASED IMPULSE CONTROL
· OFFENSIVE BEHAVIORS
· IMPAIRED REASON AND JUDGMENT
· PERSEVERATION
· REPETITIVENESS
· RESTLESSNESS
· DISRUPTION OF SLEEPNVAKE CYCLE
· SUNDOWNING
· SUSPICIOUSNESS (PARANOIA)
· LOSS OF INTERNAL THERMOMETER
· TROUBLESOME BEHAVIOR
· WANDERING