How do people actually die from Alzheimer’s Disease?
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My grandma deteriorated until she lost her gag reflex from FTD (frontotemporal dementia – not specifically Alzheimer’s, a different type of dementia) and could no longer eat or drink. The only option at that point to keep them alive is to place a permanent feeding tube, but why would you? By that stage they are a suffering husk. They have lost their ability to do everything down to the point that they cannot even swallow on their own. So, from there her care was just about end of life comfort until she passed.
My grandma deteriorated until she lost her gag reflex from FTD (frontotemporal dementia – not specifically Alzheimer’s, a different type of dementia) and could no longer eat or drink. The only option at that point to keep them alive is to place a permanent feeding tube, but why would you? By that stage they are a suffering husk. They have lost their ability to do everything down to the point that they cannot even swallow on their own. So, from there her care was just about end of life comfort until she passed.
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