The 7 stages of Alzheimer’s revealed – from silent changes to forgetfulness and fading away [Video]

MISPLACING your house keys or calling a new colleague by the wrong name are common lapses in memory.

But as we get older, we are often more forgetful, and it’s easy to start wondering if this is a sign of something serious – like Alzheimer’s disease.

As we age, our brains naturally shrink, and our thought processes slow down.

However, in Alzheimer’s disease, changes that happen in the brain are different to the changes seen in normal ageing.

It causes a build-up of toxic proteins, which destroy memory and thinking skills and, eventually, the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. 

More than 600,000 people in the UK have Alzheimer’s disease, the number one cause of dementia, and it has no cure – although there are a few promising drugs in the pipeline.

While we wait for scientists to do their magic, having ways to …