Online One of the greatest impacts on quality of life for families and their loved ones with Alzheimer s Disease is the presence of agitation behavior in the middle stages of the disease process. Experts suggest that the best way to manage agitation is through environmental and atmosphere changes rather than medications.
Medications are a last resort.
Pacing, wandering, repetitive body motions, hoarding or shadowing represent ways for your loved one to communication boredom, fear, confusion, search for safety or inability to verbalize a request for help or a feeling of pain. Cursing and abusive language can be shocking when your loved one was previously upright and proper. Researchers have not backed that assertion up. However, researchers do say that men are twice as likely to exhibit aggressive behavior, especially in the middle to late stages of the disease, or if they have major depression. The degradation of different parts of the brain causes aberrant behavior.