![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wife-spotted-unknown-symptoms-of-early-onset-dementia-in-her-44-year-old-husband/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1_Senior-man-holding-hands-of-old-woman-with-walking-stick-in-living-room.jpg&description=Caroline first started seeing a number of strange changes in husband Mark's personality from a loss in his usual attentiveness to a reliance in binge eating biscuits A concerned wife spotted symptoms of her 44-year-old husband's early onset dementia without quite knowing what she had seen. Caroline Preston saw changes in her husband Mark and had to push doctors to keep testing until they got an official diagnosis of the horrific brain-destroying disease. Dementia is described as young or early onset when symptoms develop before the age of 65. The disease is mostly associated with old age and therefore is often not recognised when younger people develop it. It can instead be attributed to other causes including depression, stress, menopause, physical health problems and relationship issues. On average this leads to a four year delay to getting an accurate diagnosis. As the person who spent the most time with him, it was Caroline who first spotted something was wrong. One example was when they talked about baby names for their first child. For all the latest news, politics, sports, and showbiz from the USA, go to The Mirror US. Writing for Alzheimer's Society, she explained: "Mark's attitude to names was: 'Oh, whatever! Whatever you want!' He'd become dismissive about things when he never was before, and slapdash. I remember him putting a blind up in the baby's room. "Before, he'd have measured and measured again and it would have been perfect. This time, the blind didn't close properly. He'd chipped the paintwork and he wasn't bothered." By then Mark was 40 and the pair had been married for nearly 10 years. They had met after Mark had just finished his Master's in physics at Oxford University, one of the world's most prestigious. According to Caroline: "he really was the most intelligent person I knew, but he was down to earth too, so practical and generous." About five to six per cent of people with Alzheimer's develop it before the age of 65, according to the Mayo){kind=link}
Caroline first started seeing a number of strange changes in husband Mark’s personality from a loss in his usual attentiveness to a reliance in binge eating biscuits
A concerned wife spotted symptoms of her 44-year-old husband’s early onset dementia without quite knowing what she had seen.
Caroline Preston saw changes in her husband Mark and had to push doctors to keep testing until they got an official diagnosis of the horrific brain-destroying disease. Dementia is described as young or early onset when symptoms develop before the age of 65.
The disease is mostly associated with old age and therefore is often not recognised when younger people develop it. It can instead be attributed to other causes including depression, stress, menopause, physical health problems and relationship issues. On average this leads to a four year delay to getting an accurate diagnosis.
As the person who spent the most time with him, it was Caroline who first spotted something was wrong. One example was when they talked about baby names for their first child.