Alzheimer’s Disease and Down Syndrome

Pages 15-16 of this guide provide a series of questions that families members, staff, or other supporters may complete. This can help you and your family keep track of the baseline abilities that a person has and consider what changes have occurred to a person’s ability to do everyday tasks, skills and hobbies, memory, behavior, language and communication ability, personality, and mood from day to day. This guides was created by the National Down Syndrome Society and the National Task Group on Intellectual Disabilities and Dementia Practices.