such as buttoning a shirt.
Why it Occurs: Problems in the neurons that produce the dopamine hormone or changes in the structure of parts of the brain responsible for muscle functions.
3. Difficulty with Language, Speech, and Conversation Flow
It is common for everyone to occasionally forget a word. For the elderly who are facing early neurological changes, it may become very frequent to reach the middle of a sentence and be unable to continue, replace unusual words with common words (for example, calling a pen a “writing stick”), fail to keep track of what is happening in discussions, and so on.
Signs to look for: Inability to clearly verbalize complex ideas, ability to repeat the same story several times over a short period, and trouble following simple spoken instructions.
Reason: Damage caused by age-related factors to the language centers in the brain leads to impairment of the person’s ability
