Dementia Symptoms: Has Your Loved One Asked You This Recently? Early Warning Sign

One of the earliest warning signs of dementia to look for in a loved one is asking a particular question regarding language, reports the Daily Express . The Alzheimer's Society said persons with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) may manifest the disorder as either behavioral variant FTD, progressive non-fluent aphasia, or semantic dementia. The early signs of semantic dementia involve difficulties with language that progressively worsen, with people losing their vocabulary and understanding of what objects are. This results in someone asking the meaning of familiar words. Other examples include difficulty finding the right word, leading to descriptions instead; using less precise words (like "animal" instead of "cat"); and trouble recognizing familiar people or common objects. A review in Neurocase also found that FTD is associated with a wide range of abnormal eating behaviors like hyperphagia, fixations on one kind of food, and even ingestion of inanimate objects.