This Man Is Taking An Alzheimers Test. Would You Or Your Loved One Pass?

you have a seat right there we'll tell money you're ready to see her see i watched a good friend of mine go with alzheimer's i helped take care of him his wife passed away and it's bad you know and i forget a lot and so naturally i'm concerned but i want to go through these tests because this could be just the beginning you know that what we do with these things is we do them once a year some of them you'll remember some of them you won't some of them you don't care whether you remember or not and it's just to make sure that we're keeping you healthy and that we don't miss something just because we know you okay all right all right where what is the season well i would say it's the beginning of the fall season okay i see on tv the other day they're talking about gasoline generally the fourth of september starts the fall season because people quit traveling okay and gas is going to go down maybe okay and do you know the date um it's the fifth fifth of september and what day is it friday where are we right now we're in your clinic in a room in your clinic okay and what town matt morris okay this is a pen a light and a sink okay what is this a pan a light and a sink okay now remember those for me okay can you spell world backwards lousy dl o w i missed one i think it's okay what were the three objects that i gave you before a pan and lamp and a sink repeat after me no ifs ands or buts no ifs ands or buts guess what i think you're doing awfully well write a sentence any sentence right along there oh see that's what i do memory i forgot i know how to spell memory okay when i start writing it okay see what i did there i know how to spell that sorry then i misspelled it there sorry now if i go real slow i could probably spell it but i'm forgetting how to spell simple words that means you're getting smarter what were the three objects i gave you before a table a pen and a sink and you are on the scale let me show you the scales we use the full steam the highest score is 30. you were at 29. when you drop 27 to 30 is very normal you know you really don't have the memory loss that would be associated with alzheimer's thank god for that okay the fear of losing one's mental capabilities is very great answer as you have felt for the last week his fear is what is mobilizing him right now he's on the moderate side of depressed though and part of that i think is related to his fear that he's having that he does not want to lose his mind is it alzheimer's i don't think it is i think the more you get involved and stay involved you're going to have less fear that you're getting alzheimer's and it's not necessarily meaning you have dementia the skills that you want to keep you got to keep using you know the old adage use it or lose it you want to keep your thinking kinds of stuff keep using it that happens in our guts it happens in our heads it happens in our eyes you wear bifocals right right that's from the relaxation it's not as taunted as it was my mother used to say that my eyes are fine my arms aren't long enough she cares about her patients she don't you're not a statistic to her

Channel: David Hoffman

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Length: 5min 16sec (316 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 03 2014