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Stages of Alzheimer's(1)

Fad marie
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I often see people on here using numbers to refer to the stage of Alz for their LO (e.g., "my dad is in stage 5"). Can anyone provide a link or the list of stages that you're using for this description?
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Should have just searched this page before I asked! I found links from all of you on other posts. For anyone looking, here's one...
https://www.alzheimers.net/stages-of-alzheimers-disease/
(Seems my mom is in Stage 5.)
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you may want to look up tam cumming's descriptions of the stages also, very detailed lists of behaviors that may help. Those are the ones I use the most.0
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Thanks so much for that. Here's the link if anyone's interested:
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