“How do people actually die from Alzheimer?”
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My mom died from Alzheimer’s in a small care home with 4 other patients with her same illness, she lived a long time, even the advanced stages seemed to drag on and on, eventually she was not coherent enough to understand how to swallow food or water, we didn’t place feeding tubes down her however, we just tried to give her any kind of liquid but to no avail, she ended up going another 6 days without eating anything or barley drinking any water. Idk what seemed more inhumane, the fact that we would have to put tubes down her throat until she died, or just accepting that she wasn’t going to ever eat again and this was the end and to just basically let her be with as much comfort as possible. I remember seeing her for the first time not being able to swallow anymore. I burst out in a complete sobbing mess running out the front door of the care home. But in the end i think the lack of food killed her, i think she could have went just a bit longer if she was placed on feeding tubes. Horrible horrible disease.
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