{"id":560629,"date":"2026-07-21T11:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T11:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/560629\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T11:21:08","slug":"these-dementia-symptoms-can-show-up-years-before-a-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/560629\/","title":{"rendered":"These dementia symptoms can show up years before a diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QVASZFFZGNHAFGTVW7NDPFUOXQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Impaired memory and thinking are the most common symptoms associated with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/01\/14\/dementia-advances-treatment-diagnosis\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/01\/14\/dementia-advances-treatment-diagnosis\/\">dementia<\/a> diagnosis. But noncognitive symptoms can appear years or even decades earlier. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"S3JEPYQJ6ZF3BMTVM5B5JU5N4U\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/07\/01\/if-youre-risk-alzheimers-eating-this-way-may-help-study-finds\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/07\/01\/if-youre-risk-alzheimers-eating-this-way-may-help-study-finds\/\">Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/a>, which accounts for 60 to 80 percent of dementia cases, can progress through three main stages. The first stage can start 15 to 20 years before any obvious changes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2024\/12\/19\/cognitive-health-secrets\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2024\/12\/19\/cognitive-health-secrets\/\">cognition<\/a>. During this time, the brain starts to shrink, and the misfolded proteins that are a hallmark of Alzheimer\u2019s begin to build up \u2014 sticky amyloid beta plaques in the brain and tau tangles in neurons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Impaired memory and thinking are the most common symptoms associated with a dementia diagnosis. But noncognitive symptoms can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-560629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}