re: I pray I live to see the day that Alzheimer’s is eradicated from this Earth.

I think a breakthrough will come soon. Sorry about your grandmother.

I'd say out of all the dementias

Lewy bodies is tough to bear bc there the dementia aspect and symptoms indicative of Parkinson's as well

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My dad had early onset at 44 years old. Went downhill quickly

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What were the symptoms or way that it was diagnosed? I think a loved may be experiencing this.

Lost my mother to it earlier this year. Her father and two brothers also had it.

I am sorry to read this. My own grandmother died of this disease. its terrible. The mind dies before the body does. it takes a terrible toll on the family and the poor victim.

God bless. Hopefully this ends soon for you and her.

Grandmother had it. I think I'm getting it, goodbye. I'm not living years like that.

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Hospice came in for the last 2 weeks as he just shriveled up and died

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Hospice is like assisted suicide. Although I think a lot of families don't realize this. My mom recently remarried and her husband's mom had Alzheimer's and they ended up putting her in hospice and 2 days later, she died. Thing was, she wasn't in bad health other than the Alzheimer's and even then it wasn't that bad as to other cases, still had a lot left to progress into something worse.

Hospice KNEW she had kidney problems, and what the frick do you think they did to her? They pumped her up full of morphine around the clock. Guess what she died off? Failure to breath. But pumping them full of morphine around the clock, wasn't nothing out of the ordinary I suppose.

My mom was there the whole time and she said he was doing ok, then started to get sick and then died. As someone who abused opiates in the past, when you take too much opiates you throw up, it is natural, and usually you stop your dosage. They used this excuse to give her more medicine. This woman still had at least another few years left, at least. Her death seemed more to do with OD on opiates than dying of Alzheimer's. There are plenty examples of this out there, and if you go to hospice, you almost always die there.

If I ever get diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's or ALS I would prob just end it myself somewhere

Thank you to everyone for the kind words, prayers, and well-wishes. My prayers go out to everyone else dealing with this or a similar issue.

My grandmother had a stroke back early to mid September. With her already advanced staged Alzheimer's, it made recovery from the stroke almost impossible. She mad some progress in the first 3-4 days after the stroke, but then after that it has been a decline. Sunday will be three weeks since she came home from the hospital, she has been in a hospital bed and on hospice since she got home. She has continued to get worse, and my Dad says her decline has been more noticeable over the last couple of days.

Her body has begun to shut down on its own, she can't swallow enough to eat or take meds, so hospice recommended taking her off mets and that we stop trying to make her to eat. They are going to start the morphine now (they didn't start it until after we reached this point) and give her enough to keep her comfortable. We don't know how long it will be before she passes, could be today or it could be a week, they didn't give us a timeline. I know that in her right mind, she wouldn't want to go on living like this, but selfishly its just hard to let go.

I worry most about my grandfather once she passes, they've been married for 67 years. He's still in relatively good health, still sound in mind. I am just worried about how to keep him going and less depressed once she is gone.

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My dad had early onset at 44 years old.

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Went downhill quickly

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Well at least there was that.

My Mom displayed her first dementia-ish symptoms in her early 60s, made it to age 74 before dying but the last six years of her "life" I wouldn't wish on anyone.

Alzy Sucketh.