Before my husband died of A in 2005 I had tried a number of vitamins, minerals, and herbs. We also used Aricept, and Respiradol when he became paranoid. I don’t know that it slowed down his A by much but it did maintain his general physical condition, so that he only developed incontinence 6 months before, a seizure 4 months before, and at 3 months I was making plans for a walker or wheel chair. He collapsed 3 weeks before he died, but I was able to bring him home from the hospital and rehabilitation nursing home for his last week. He had wanted to die at home. I had figured he would die quickly when he could no longer swallow his vitamins. Swallowing issues started 2 or 3 months before death.
In the last 3 years he could not find his way home, and could only remember for 15 seconds. He was an active man and kept trying to get me up to go to work every day. We were both retired. I had some land with a tin roof picnic shelter on some land in the country. I decided to close it in and make a cabin. He loved helping me do that. We had no electricity. I would measure and mark a board, like a 2 x 8 or 2x6, start a cut and then he would saw it through with the hand saw. I would also have him hold boards and start a big nail. Then he would finish hammering it in. People underestimate how much a person can do even with almost no memory if it is continuous movement and they are willing.
You are a good, strong woman and I am sorry for your loss.
You are an angel.
You made those last years have real meaning and purpose for him. God bless you.