How To Know When A Person With Dementia Is Nearing The End of Life #death

How To Know When A Person With Dementia Is Nearing The End of Life #hospice #palliativecare

Dementia is an umbrella term for multiple different brain diseases and the symptoms that go along with those brain diseases. There are many different types of brain diseases that therefore fall under this generic umbrella term: Vascular Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, Frontotemporal Dementia, Lewy Body dementia, Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's Disease, HIV (later stages), Crutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Kosakoff Syndrome, alcohol related dementia, head trauma, corticobasal degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy, and even some advanced stages of Multiple Sclerosis.

Many people with dementia decline physically and functionally at a fairly slow rate. Often people with dementia will live for years with long periods of plateau in their overall health. Depending on the type and severity of the dementia, life expectancy may range from 8 - 20 + years.

For this reason it can be hard to know when a person with dementia is nearing death. In this video we'll talk about one of the biggest signs to look out for to identify when a person with dementia may be nearing death.

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00:00 How To Know When A Person With Dementia Is Nearing The End of Life
00:19 Why is it hard to know when a person with dementia is nearing the end of life
00:32 How to tell when a someone with dementia is dying | One major sign

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Katie Duncan is nurse practitioner & death coach. She is the founder of Death Care Coach, a company offering end of life care coaching and support to help families better navigate the end of life journey and ease the dying process.

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[culturematters]

My mother is 90, has dementia, is bedfast, double incontinent, has to be spoonfed and sleeps 23.5 hours a day. She is still eating but with objection. Any idea how long she has? I hate to see her living this way. She doesn't know who I am when I come to visit. It breaks my heart...

[albaniansoul]

My grandpa has dementia and he has become in a matter of days very aggressive to the point where we can not feed him anymore. He is lying in bed all day, you can't get near him because he becomes physical with you while breathing very heavily and not saying a single word for days. He has become somehow demonic, we haven't seen him like that never. Is this the end ?

[kristinemargaritis]

My 76 year old mother eats very little and starts to choke after meals . I know it’s aspiration but she’s been in a psychosis mode booking a trip to Florida when she has a really hard time walking and inconsistent both ways . Her primary told me legally there’s nothing I can do 🤦‍♀️

[silvana]

My sister is being sick randomly after food and is not eating much and now not swallowing properly pocketing in mouth 😢

[bellers]

Happening to my wife now. Sleeps 18 hours a day and can’t even face eating a meal. Sipping soup once a day is about her limit.