Marlena Gates
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Marlena Gates is an editor at AgingCare. She has a degree in psychobiology from the University of California, Davis, and a master's degree in writing and professional editing. She worked as a research assistant at UC Davis and a nursing assistant in a care home for children with severe traumatic brain injury. Her brother has a dementia diagnosis.
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End-stage dementia is characterized by a rapid loss of speech and mobility as well as systemic infections as the body begins to shut down completely.