Half Of People With Alzheimer’s Disease Have Mild Symptoms

About 50.4% of people participating in the Framingham Heart Study from 2004 to 2009 who were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease had mild symptoms. About 30.5% had moderate dementia symptoms, and 19.3% had severe dementia.

The researchers defined “mild symptoms” of dementia as cognitive impairment obvious to other plus loss of ability to perform some activities of daily living (ADLs). ADLs include eating, personal hygiene, dressing, transitioning from place to place, toileting, and continence. Moderate dementia was defined as more significant cognitive impairment, needing help with ADLs, disorientation to time and/or place, forgetting personal history, or . . .