10 Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease
Symptom #8: Dementia
A patient with Parkinson’s disease has a higher risk of dementia by up to two to six times compared to the normal population. The likelihood of dementia increases with age and duration of the disease. Dementia lowers the quality of life for both the patients and their caregivers.
It also increases the probability of needing nursing home care and mortality. The disease causes changes in the brain and affect mental functions, memory, and attention. Some of the symptoms of dementia in patients with Parkinson’s disease are muffled speech, changes in memory, difficulty concentrating, issues with judgement, trouble interpreting visual information, delusions that include paranoid ideas, depression, anxiety, irritability, and sleep disturbances.
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