An inability to remember times and dates can be frustrating for a person with Alzheimer's and can reduce their ability to function. Both time and date are abstract ideas. They can be difficult for the person you care for to comprehend or to recall.

They may not know the day of the week or month and may rely on calendars or aids to keep track of appointments and special occasions. The person you care for may begin to refer to past events, places and people in the present tense or think something that just happened actually it took place a long time ago. For example, they could mix up living relatives with those who are deceased. They also may have difficulty judging the passage of time and they may lose orientation for day and night.

Unlike Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease
A neurological disease that affects memory and behaviour. It is characterized by beta-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. There is no known cause but genetics and lifestyle are thought to play a role., people with frontotemporal dementia Frontotemporal dementia
A type of dementia that mainly affects the frontal lobe causing a problem in executive function tasks. exhibit little memory Memory
The ability to process information that requires attention, storage, and retrieval. disturbances in the early stage. They remain oriented to time and place and recall information about the present and past well into their disease.

The first step in taking a more active role in symptom Symptom
In medicine a symptom is what the patient complains of. For example, a a patient may have symptoms of pain and fatigue. management is understanding how a symptom is affecting everyday life; the next step is communicating this knowledge to those involved. SymptomGuide^TM is designed with these goals in mind.

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