How Long Can One Live With Alzheimer’s Disease?
Saturday, January 28th, 2012 at
11:12 am
Question by : How long can one live with Alzheimer’s Disease?
My grandpa was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease last summer, when he noticed he had trouble remembering some things. How much longer will he live for?
My chosen answer:
Answer by Captain Sterlbean
I don’t think Alzheimer’s changes the lifespan of a person. My friend’s grandmother is over 100 and has Alzheimer’s.
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this is a very hard question to answer but when my mom was diagnosed in 2002 she also had dementia and was put on a lot of medication… non of which helped her and gradually she became a child in her mind and lived for 7 yrs after the inital diagnosis… alzhiemers has stages and when u see the doctor they can tell u more about his quality of life and what can be done medically to prolong his memory and such .
oh. i’m sorry for your grandpa. not to be morbid, but alzheimer’s slowly gets worse and worse after it starts. first he will forget names and numbers, then people, then addresses, then places. eventually if it progresses to the final stage he will forget how to talk, then how to eat & drink, then how to breathe. you don’t get much farther than that. i’m very sorry. however, if it was diagnosed early enough, then counseling and such can help extend the time or even prevent the final stage from setting in. if left untouched, then the final stage can arrive in less than 20 years.
it will be foreve.r with him . just be patient and more communication with him control the case , talk to him often that is the foremost management
How long someone lives with Alzheimer’s changes a lot from person to person. There are treatments now that can prolong the early phase so that they don’t lose their memories as fast as they used to. Just kind of remember that there are going to be times he gets awful frustrated with just forgetting stuff, and he might take that out on people around him sometimes. Also, feelings go away way after the ability to talk, and they know when someone loves them or is kind if they don’t know much else. Pat Robertson said something really hurtful a couple weeks ago about Alzheimer’s being a kind of death – it is not. Use the time you have with him as best you can – he will be able to tell stories about how things were when he was young for probably a while yet, because long term memory goes after short term does.
I think, well crap I can’t remember.