Quix,
I agree...though I admit I was fortunate enough not to have to change my Mother’s diapers. Others (family, nursing home staff, or hospice staff) were always there to spare me that gut check.
Mother never complained about changing my dirty stuff...and I’m a bit ashamed that I’m glad I didn’t have to do hers.
My FIL had this disease. A life-long picky eater, he forgot about the things he disliked. IN his last years, he ate things he never had before. It’s one of the happy memories we keep from those painful years of gradual loss.
When he finally passed away, we had long before said goodbye to the man we knew and loved.
Our kids called it Old Timer’s Disease.
It was quite an exercise in humility on all sides.
And humility is a good thing.
My mom exhibited A's characteristics several years ago but it hasn't progressed like A's. I think she has plain old dementia because she is aware of some things-- she wipes her mouth when she dribbles. When she likes something she says, "That's good!"
Mine is 91 and takes her vit C and CELL FOOD plus Km, a mineral supplement, daily. She takes no Rx drugs except an occasional antibiotic.
She has no pressure sores.
My mother is still enjoyable even if she doesn't know what she's saying. Everybody who comes here to check on her just loves her. She does something to make me laugh every day.