Anyone else taking care of otherwise healthy dementia patient?

SiberianIris

Thank you for the update. I've been following this thread since you started it. We're 2 going on 3 years into a dementia diagnosis with my 96 y.o. mother. Other than her failing brain, she is otherwise healthy and has progressed from stage 4 to stage 5.

I am sorry you are in this hell of a holding pattern. It is hard to fathom how some people's bodies can go on living even in stage 7 when supposedly their neurological decline is affecting their organ systems. Dementia sucks 😥

Ragfoot

https://alzconnected.org/discussion/comment/237917#Comment_237917

I asked for and received a Hospice evaluation for my DW. She was accepted and determined to be solidly in Stage 7c. After 3 months, as you put it "with no signs of decline", they "graduated" her out of the Hospice program. I was given a list of conditions, that if they were to occur, to request another evaluation.