How old is she? What kind of doctor saw her? General Practitioner, Neurologist, Gerontologist? How long have the changes been going on? Staging generally is not done in dementia. It's an extremely individualistic disease. That is, my husband has Frontal Temporal Dementia-five years. His decline (so far) has been gradual. And is this one form of dementia that tends to quickly progress. Whereas another person's wife with FTD barely made it past five years before passing away. I wouldn't worry about staging. Instead, get more diagnostic testing done to see what's going on. Some of this is pretty simple-a single page quiz to complex imaging of the brain.
No one really Knows . When people start Falling down Multiple times , becoming Incontinent and dont eat that's when you become worried . These Illnesses can go one for years where the person doesnt know any one 10 - 15 years .
If your loved one has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and not any of the other dementias, then you must know that it is the slowest progressing of all the dementias and can go on for 20+ years, so instead of worrying about what stage she might be in, just enjoy whatever time you may have left with her. Like cwillie said below, when your loved one is in the final stages, she won't be able to walk or talk anymore and will be completely bedridden. So enjoy the fact that she's still able to ask you questions.
All the charts are only a guide and not set in stone, if she is still walking and talking she has a long way to go before she reaches advanced dementia.
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Staging generally is not done in dementia. It's an extremely individualistic disease. That is, my husband has Frontal Temporal Dementia-five years. His decline (so far) has been gradual. And is this one form of dementia that tends to quickly progress. Whereas another person's wife with FTD barely made it past five years before passing away.
I wouldn't worry about staging. Instead, get more diagnostic testing done to see what's going on. Some of this is pretty simple-a single page quiz to complex imaging of the brain.
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Like cwillie said below, when your loved one is in the final stages, she won't be able to walk or talk anymore and will be completely bedridden.
So enjoy the fact that she's still able to ask you questions.
https://www.dementiacarecentral.com/aboutdementia/facts/stages/#scales