Problems with Balance, Walking, Falling an Early Sign of Dementia

Balance and walking problems often present before the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s or dementia.

By Bob DeMarco
Alzheimer’s Reading Room

When I first came to Delray Beach to take care of my mother, she was falling down all the time.

Once, I found her laying in the parking lot and she could not get up. She was shaking like a leaf.

Another time she fell down and broke her little finger. It took us over ten hours in the emergency room that time around. She would fall and couldn’t get back up.

This might sound hard to believe but after I got my mother into the gym, she did not fall once for over seven years, and not until the last three weeks of her life. I took my mother into the gym for the first time when she was 88 years old.

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