Brain Health After 60: Warning Signs Seniors Should Never Ignore

to retrieve words, use grammar, and understand spoken language.

4. Sudden Shifts in Personality, Mood, or Judgment
Brain function is critical for the capabilities of emotional control, impulse management, and making decisions. Someone may usually be gregarious in their former life, but demonstrate uncharacteristic behavior such as being anxious, alarmed, introverted, and lacking the ability to manage money.

Things to Look Out for: Falling for overt scams, not maintaining personal hygiene, experiencing unexpected anger, losing interest in hobbies that were previously important.
Reason Behind the Problem: Changes in the frontal part of the brain decrease efficiency of executive functions therefore making it hard to analyze situation, take risk and control emotions.
5. Disorientation to Time, Place, and Spatial Environment
When one loses track of the day of the week, only to become aware of it later is an inconsequential distraction. When someone becomes lost in a neighborhood they have lived