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08-28-2009, 10:02 AM | #1 | |||
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my dad recently passed away from alzheimer's disease. During a 5 day period (when i was on a trip and no one visited him) he slipped from
stage 5 (able to dress, feed himself with supervision - but unable to recall personal history reliably; lack of current info) (lasts approx 1.5 years) to stage 6 Agitation and hallucination, loss of bowel & bladder control, inability to do independent living tasks; responds to nonverbal stimuli and in 2 weeks he was at stage 7: Loss of speech, moans only, no ability to ambulate, no swallowing ability - required total support he was in stage 7 for 3 days and then he passed away. Has anyone else seen such fast decline ?
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