According to WebMD, symptoms can appear differently for each case of dementia, but sometimes physical changes sometimes manifest before memory loss.

While it is usually a sign of late-stage dementia, loss of balance can be attributed to early-stage vascular dementia in some cases.

Diseases which affect this part of the brain, such as dementia, are more likely to affect balance earlier on.

When loss of balance is characteristic of late-stage dementia, patients will sometimes adjust by changing their gait, or how they walk

Research published in the Journal of The American Geriatrics Society in 2016, even suggested that signs of dizziness and loss of balance earlier on in life could mean someone is more likely to get Alzheimer’s as they get older

These proteins build up in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s and Dementia and damage the parts of the brain associated with learning and memory