Walking Changes in Dementia
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- čas přidán 12. 05. 2022
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In this short video I share that walking changes are common in dementia. Have you noticed changes in walking in your loved one?
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Rheumatoid Arthritis can cause similar gait issues. Painful or stiff joints can cause slow, off-kilter steps or gait. Ataxia can also cause gait issues.
Plus that, my Mom would not wear properly fitted shoes. Her old worn out old work shoes were hard, cracked and she almost skated with hardly leaving the floor. I pleaded and coaxed. Even others would say "Your shoes look ugly,-- don't you have other shoes ?." Just made her mad. I put them into the trash and got good shoes from the closet... World war 3 !.
In the end she fell on her face and the bald shoes played a part.
Peripheral neuropathy also affects how I walk. It has gotten worse in the last 2 mos, since I had a TIA. I've also lost dexterity in my fingers. 😕
@gwendolynsmith9532 you may have a b12 deficiency.
I had major changes in gait that is sometimes similar to the first one after being injured by Ciprofloxacin antibiotics. It's still like that most days, and now with a left leg sort of drag too, and it's years later. 🥲 It destroys cartilage and causes musculoskeletal disability in some people.
@@gwendolynsmith9532Get a full body mri/MRA. To see what the root cause is. You should be seeing a neurologist and a neurologist Physio for exercises
She walks like Biden
Took the words right out of mouth.
I work with 25 dementia patients and the ones that are able to walk all walk in varied ways shown in this video. I have to say the video is accurate in my expertise, to those disagreeing.
Stating that there are other causes for gait issues is not “disagreeing.” It’s alarming how stupid people are.
I do landscape maintenance for 4 different retirement facilities & I see some of them walking like this but they also talk to me normally sometimes
Joe walks like that 😅
@@Jen-ur4utyou’re the stupid one, pal.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Retired nurse here. I used to have such a hard time explaining this to families. I can send this to my friends and they wil have a clear explanation they can refer to people.
Why. Old people walk carefully anyhow. What were families confused about?
My grandmother forgot how to walk around a year or two before passing, dementia is really tragic to watch them slowly forget everything.
My mom has dementia. To me is hard to see her understanding what’s going on and how her life has diminished. Don’t know if it makes sense, but sometimes wished that she forgets about what’s happening to her or that she forgets about how much her life has changed. If she did forget, she would not suffer. She would just be there not thinking. I would suffer of course, but at least she would have no clue.
My grandfather is the same 😢
100% ❤ One of our Residents walked with a very slow shuffle. Some days She used a walker. One day, She was near the front door and someone’s family member LET HER OUT! Grrrr… anyhow a few of us jump up and get to the door. And what do we see? SHE’S RUNNING 🏃🏼♀️ THRU THE PARKING LOT 😳 We were ❤frozen lol Like What. The. Heck.? So we then Run ourselves to catch her. My Assistant and I are on each side and She looks at me and says “DAMN YOU BARBARA HOW’D YOU CATCH ME?” Um. My name is Jennifer, This sweet precious woman (who bit me so hard I still have the scar 😊) but She never said a curse word in her life!
Dementia and Alzheimer’s…. Sigh 💔
Just found out that my aunt passed away from Dementia yesterday morning. I'm going to miss her so very much. Sweetest woman with a good ❤️. She was so talented. The best part is that she's not suffering anymore. God bless her and everyone 😇 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Ignorance to the appropriate natural herbal cure results to her Early Demi's,may her soul rest in peace
Ohhh. I'm sorry for your loss.
Always remember ' without death , life is meaningless 😢'
@@susanmullen445 Life is actually meaningless without death as you said but death shouldn't take us away before our time,my regards to Dr emuakhe on CZcams from Africa that has been saving my family with his herbal's for various illness
@@user-eo9qd8zx4w thank you and I am trying to learn more. My husband was diagnosed with it as well. It's not easy to be his caregiver but I'm surviving. Any help would be appreciated.
I'm sorry for your loss. My older brother died of it as well. He was only 69 years old. May they both rest in peace.🌹
Just like president Magoo
Thank you for posting this! I do still believe as an avid walker myself (most of my life) walking heals many things in the body! It doesn't matter how you do it, just the act of enjoying the outdoors and nature is a blessing that is cheap and fun on so many levels!
It sad watching this because I’m seeing it with my dad, but your little smile after you flip your shoes on, makes it brighter 🙂 you are amazing
Yes! My mother just passed away, but that was one of the signs. She walked exactly like your first demonstration and then moved to the more cautious walk. She would always comment on how slow she was…She was a huge walker as she never had a car and this was perplexing, but now I understand it as one of the signs.
I'm sorry about your mom
Thank you so much.@@coreywashington5440
I was given a depression med and no long could lift my legs when walking. My feet were dragging and shuffling no matter how hard I tried to concentrate. I was the one that had to tell the Drs that it was the new med they started me on and had to deny it. It took close to 3 weeks to start walking normally again
When meds are causing it, that can mean the liver is clogged. There are really good liver cleanse tutorials here on you tube. 😊
So glad you are walking again. 🙂
@@Chellemeor don't take these depression meds that have been shown in studies NOT TO WORK! It's almost completely the placebo effect. But the HUGE list of side effects and possible death are very real.
Which meds did you take?
My father has dementia. It's getting difficult day by day...he does not listen to us. My mother and sister. He beats us. This is taking a toll on our mental health. It feels like death is better than life nowadays. We love him but it's really getting difficult. We have sleepless nights and days. It's super tiring.
Get him committed, for your own safety & his too. He's very capable of harming himself, burning down the house, or seriously injuring you. It's very traumatic, I know, but it has to be. The disease doesn't improve, it only worsens. God bless. ❤
You may need to seek external help. Like a carer or care home. You need to preserve your well being just as you preserve the love for your parent.
If he's in India he might not be able to commit home anywhere but it would be a good idea..
You desperately need him to change to a Keto/carnivore diet. Then watch miracles happen!
@sandyjuntunen4088
Wrong, the proper human diet can reverse or cure this and other illnesses!
My mind is perfectly fine but when I'm really sick and body is aching I walk like this...very carefully.
I need total knee replacement surgery on both knees. I walk like this because of the severe pain. I'm sure some people think I have Alzheimer's or dementia... I don't! That's what they all say! 😂🤣😂
I just became a CNA and it’s my first time doing anything health related for work. I noticed all these things and it breaks my heart. These people need me you know
For sure, I have observed the walking changes, my mother does all of them...especially leaning forward
Spinal stenosis; alkalosis spondolisis
A relative I helped care for had a definite change in gait with the onset of dementia. Before, she had always had a very “prissy” ladylike walk. As her mental health deteriorated, she began to walk in a lumbering gait, head pitched forward and arms swinging. It was like a chimpanzee and I’m not saying that to be funny or insulting. It was so painful to see her like that, having known her to be an attractive, athletic person all her life.
I know exactly what you mean with the chimpanzee walk. My Dad used to do it but I remember him doing it before he even got dementia. He then walked like the first walk demonstrated here.
@@sugarpuff2978 sorry you went through that with your dad. It’s a sad thing to experience.
Great visual to help spot a possible issue. TY for a simple to understand report on this occurrence.💯
Sometimes people find it hard to walk for many reasons. It doesnt mean they have dementia!
No, but it Can be a symptom of certain types of dementia. So if you see these type of things, you should look into it.
Just something to be aware of.
She's only talking about people with those diseases
Other problems and diseases affects your gate too. I'm 67 but I have two major issues that have affected my gate. I have MS for 12 years now. And two years ago I slipped on some water on my tile floor and severely injured both knees and was in a wheelchair for 3 months. That has made a huge difference in my gate. So it's not always dementia.
@@gutchiespencer2714 ok.
I walk bent forward when I'm in pain I have scoliosis.
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Dr. Natali, I just want to reaffirm how much I love your videos. Also, I value the help you provide. You are doing a good thing with your life. Thank you, Harry Evans.
I had a stroke which has effected my walking just like what you’re saying but I don’t have dementia, thank you very much!
They're not saying that everyone who has one of these types of gaits has dementia.
My Father had dementia. I get forgetting things at times and I’m in my 60’s. I been taking magnesium
L-threonate . I don’t take any other pills. I eat good and I walk 4-5 miles per day. Praying not to get dementia.
A good multi vitamin is always a good addition. Fills in any vitamin or minerals gaps in your diet. The B Complex vitamins are vital for many neurological things.
Changes in floor coverings can affect people with dementia colour and texture, can make them unsure and unsteady the illness affects how the brain processes the information
my grandpa has been walking like that more and more. he also forgot what town we lived in yesterday and we had to tell him the name and where it was at. i wish this all wasn’t happening, i don’t want to lose him.
OMG my mom hunched over just like that! She can't even stand up straight it's amazing. I thought it was because of her back! ❤
My friend walks like the first one. Plus, she forgets how many times she's called during the day. She also isn't eating right. I've warned her family that she's becoming a danger to herself and they refuse to make her get supervised care. You have to be do careful about getting into other people's business. They don't like it. In all honesty, her son did move her in with him. He had sold all of her furniture and everything. But she despised his wife and left. She got her old apartment back before they rented it out. But she's not doing well. Hard to know when to pull the plug and forcibly make them get help.
We had a HOA meeting regarding a resident and was told the bylaws prevent the board from stepping in. Her neighbors called bs due to safety issues. However if it's outside of the residence it's fair game and is up to us if we want to get involved or not. Call police/ ambulance who take her to hospital and then she is released home. This has happened 1p or more times. Ridiculous
Ten times
Hospitals and nursing homes should have treadmills for elderly patients who need to walk. It's very therapeutic.
I call my husband's shuffle a simian walk because the first time I noticed his gait change he'd been dropping his arms by his side, palms faced backward with fingers curled, just like the apes but without the loping run.
More recently while his hands still do the same, his gait is much, much slower.
He has FTD.....mental, psychotic changes since 2014, diagnosed mixed dementia 2017, rediagnosed 2019 but walking like this 4 years. I got the disability notice for the car about 18 months ago as it got worse.
On a good note and totally off topic, he had a shower last night without much prompting, woohoo. There's been a brain change in the last fortnight, another step downward, so fingers crossed, showering won't be as big an issue for him as the deterioration continues (won't hold my breath though).
"On a good note and totally off topic, he had a shower last night without much prompting, woohoo." Celebrate those moments. They are golden.
@@ABoyNamedJoe 🛀👍
My daughter is 33 years old with Lewy Body Dementia and yes, she does walk with a mix of those walks.
Does this gait walk cause people to fall and trip ?
Great demonstration. I often feel people forget or aren’t aware this disease can affect people with their physical autonomy as well as their brain. I worked as a CNA for many years with memory impaired. I miss it and am thinking about picking it up part time. Love your vids
Now living with my older half brother. He's moderate stage, but his body is still very spry for an 87 year old. I can hear him shuffling around the house all the time, but he shuffles pretty good!
Slow ones mixed with quicker ones is what I've seen my father do lately.
But it's usually excrusiatingly slow.
I'm 62 and just been diagnosed with dementia I walk slowly am I going to die I'm petrified
@@ildikoparker920 I'm so sorry you were diagnosed with dementia.. Best of luck to you.
@@ildikoparker920 oh please don't let all that upset you. It's easy for others to say that you have dementia! It doesn't mean you have to believe it. You shouldn't worry that you're going to die. We are all supposed to expect to die eventually, but it shouldn't be stopping you from enjoying your time here on earth. Focus on finding things that interest you. Let them say whatever they want. Enjoy your food, and take pleasure in all the things you can still do. Listening to music,? Get plenty rest and if possible maybe someone can find some family photos? Do you watch TV? Can you read? I do hope that things cheer up for you. You aren't that old and need to take good care to find things to enjoy.
@@sheilahammond4260 thank you so much you wont believe how I appreciated your advise. I got some adult coloring books and joined a palates group. Thanks again I feel so better.
I didn't know this. Thanks for sharing .
I adore this lady she has educated me very well and I have used her guidance with my husbands vascular dementia, i have been there on the edge many many times this lady has saved me and I am most grateful, its done differently in our country I have to say frustrating is not the word,I welcome any information that helps me along this sad journey.
You're most welcome
Me too… everything u said is exactly how I feel
@@DementiaCareblazers how soon after diagnosis do things start going down hill.
Biden shuffles big time.
My grandmother passed away after dealing with dementia for over 5 years. She shuffled and ultimately lost her ability to chew and use with bathroom on her own. Very sad, I pray my mother doesn’t have it as she ages. If so I will NOT place her in any other hole than mine.
hole??
After 18 years of caregiving to my mother with this dastardly disease, I have witnessed many of these signs. Thank God, my mother was blessed with "easy-to-care for" and it was a privilege for me to be her caregiver . RIP mom
Good to know all of that. I knew some of it, but not all of it!
Exactly what Biden does
Yeah and yet all those people still voted for him in 2020..
Lol. Yeah right!!!! 🤦♀️
@judymastrullo4348 Biden didn't get all that vote. We know what they did.
Thanx for this.
A friend of mine was visiting a specialist (for unrelated issues) when one of the other specialists noticed his gait as he walked though his field of view, suggested he really needed to go see his GP - this was his earliest diagnosis of Parkinson's. He'd lost his sense of smell decades earlier, and attributed that to his work environment, but that would have been a very early warning.
Thank you I’m currently dealing with this…I’ll always be behind my mom to help
Thank you this is very educational
The Prez walks like this..
Wow!!! I'm learning so much with you. Thanks. I'm starting a journey here...🥺
Oh this is one I wasn’t aware of! My husband, diagnosed with early dementia shuffles and walks very slowly. Drives me crazy. Now I see the reason. I told him he needed to buy new slippers. So he went out and bout a pair. They looked so small so I checked the size. It was a 12. They were a women’s 12! He insists on wearing them even though they only fit on two thirds of his foot. He said he just bought them because he was afraid to come home without slippers! Ugh I didn’t know he was headed out to buy them. Lol
Hope he isn't driving!
You are a light💡in my life! Thank you so much for sharing these short and so important validating video clips!
I'm an observer. Paying attention to details. I call these "little things that mean a lot." When I talk to my mom, I listen carefully, watching her facial expressions, movements. Though she has arthritis, and a walker for support, she walks with combination style. She has attributed this to arthritis and knee problems. But you just showed there is a difference between arthritis and dementia.
Though I'm dismissed by family members and her Dr now, I find myself almost in tears when I get these messages.
Keep up the great work! God bless you.🙏👏👏❤
Thank you,your doing an amazing job at educating us❤
Love the flipped on shoes. Cute.
Dementia is not cute.
My mama had dementia and she completely lost her ability to walk. Her legs stopped functioning. I assume the part of her brain that controlled walking became damaged due to the disease. She’s gone now.😢
Sorry 😢I'm going through it and miss her every time I see her. Long good bye
@@victorialarkin5802how long did she have it til she passed? and at what age?
Good to know! My husband walks slow and it sometimes bothered me, but thank you for understanding!
Thank you
Joe biden
It would be good to additionally mention Norma Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH), which is the only curable form of dementia and where gait is a major symptom.
Joe Biden…perfect example.
Trump must be one of them too... trying to convert our government to a China/Russia regime.
My brother in law has started walking backwards at times. Very slow and leaning.
My Mother shuffles all the time. Thank you I didn't realize this was a part of her dementia.
One of the first signs of dementia is not being able to drive properly. It turns out driving is very complex, requiring coordination of feet, hands and eyes to take in all the signals. Once people start to honk you better sell your car and take an Uber.
Very informative, something to watch for in family members.
And politicians 😭
I’ve seen it in the resident in our capital.
I hope you’re making note of this out of concern for the human being in office. But I suspect that instead, this just makes you feel superior. Your comment is not appropriate, not helpful, not caring, not necessary. But congratulations on promoting divisive foolishness about an illness that hurts people and families from all walks of life.
This is a very serious issue...
We are here because we have love ones with this disease and we are caring for them...and we are going through a very difficult ordeal...please go to a political site...I hope you never have a family with this horrible disease...
@donnabonn1892 having cared for family members with dementia, myself, I ask:
would you give any one of your family members codes to the nuclear bombs and authority to push the button?
@@user-bd4bo4tb8u You know it's true.
I’ve noticed this change in my HWD. Thank you for sharing 💜
You’re helping many you don’t know. Happy Thanksgiving
Do the president shuffle 🕺
Joe Biden.
Parkinson disease is a very terrible illness, my Dad suffered from it for 19 years until we finally got a help and a medicine that truly works that helped treat, cure and reversed all his symptoms totally... My Dad is well again.
My nana walks like the first one she was diagnosed with dementia not too long ago and it’s been really hard on my mom❤
I need this channel now😢
My partner was diagnosed 2w ago
And yes, now I see
He walks like your first demo
Ty😟
Grandma sways back and forth
Joe Biden walks like that. Jo walks slow and shuffles his feet.
Thank you for this now I know why my mom was impacted she’s had dementia 3 yrs now
My god….Joe B. We all knew
I walk like this because I fell 6 months ago and my hips and legs don't work right because of the pain.
Early onset here..
Failing skeletal muscles have a hard time holding us up, lactic acidosis creates a swollen/pressure feeling in our ankles, and our time-keeping neurons are off-kilter.
Hmmm....this looks familiar. I've seen it on TV, walking to Marine One
And SOMETIMES those same gaits are caused by late onset neuromuscular Ccoditions like muscular dystrophy!
Wait. I know a certain politian who walks like that. He falls off bikes and trips on stairs.
And falls when crossing a stage.
The first one should be called the Joe Biden Shuffle.
One of the early signs of my father's dementia. I had no idea at the time, it was only later I learned 'dementia shuffle' is a thing. Sad to look back and realise
The last one is how pvz zombies walk
The gait relationship to eyesight is very important as well, depth perception scues the steps as well.
Very accurate. Thank you
Thank you!! I didn't know this!
My father ended up in a wheel chair during his last days. Lived 5yrs after diagnosis. Super sad disease. 😔🙏🏽
Thanks for sharing ❤
You make a very good crazy walker !!! Nice
Nice to see you're still making videos - shorts now: great! Sharp and helpful little video and you are as beautiful as ever, inside and out. (I saw you in connecting with a Caregiver certificate. I used a different CZcams channel back then.)
mom my at 83 seems to walk so slowly. I didnt realize it was connected to dementia. She's always been nuts!
I have an ear fluid condition which causes me to walk off balance, get dizzy and sometimes fall.
I have to make my sister practice taking steps past the end of the opposite foot. Stroke a year ago, she likes saying "No." Practice helps.
Thank you for more information. I've said it before I'll say it again. Is there a support group in Indianapolis?
That is a perfect imitation of Biden.
Mitch McConnell.
Hi from north Dakota and I'm native American and I say that your always looking beautiful
Thank god you showed us those grippers!
Remind them heel-toe and practice. That will keep them on that plateau longer.
My Mom has alzheimers And walks just like this w help every day. Also leans forward always
A torn meniscus has been making me walk abnormally lately.
So are there exercises or therapy to help prevent this?
PS - Great videos Dr. Natali. You've been so helpful to me and the folks in our support group!
Glad it was helpful!
The short answer is no. There is no cure for dementia or it’s side effects.