7. Speech impairment
During Alzheimer’s disease, patients may suffer from various speech disorders. They generally have issues with their vocabulary or are not able to communicate well. Most of the time, patients use the same sound words or filler words for communication, because they forget what the words mean or what they say.
Repeating specific sentences becomes difficult for them because they lack the required understanding of the language. They frequently interrupt the discussion by long breaks because they have to think a lot about what they need to say. These symptoms make it difficult to understand the person asking the question, so many patients keep themselves away from the discussion.
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