My grandparents are both 90 years old and have both been diagnosed with dementia. My gran has had it for a while, a few years I guess. The diagnosis is moderate. My grandfather has only been recently diagnosed and his is mild. However my grandfathers seems to have come on suddenly (in the last 2 months) and he seems almost as bad as my gran now - as bad really. My gran up until the last 3 weeks wasnt really so bad, its come on ever so gradually. She is very forgetful - but she always has been. Mostly things around the house get put in the wrong places and she repeats the stories shes telling or asks the same questions over and over. They can both hold a decent conversation still much of the time although my gran cant find the right words to use to describe things.
What is the normal process of dementia? How many years can people live with it? I believe there are stages, but does everyone go through them in the same way or do some people skip a stage?
Ive noticed that my grandfather is starting to sleep through the day now. he never has done this before. He is very healthy aside from the dementia and his father died of natural causes / old age and so did his grandfather and his father before him andso on and so on. Im just wondering if the sleeping is a sign that he is going to go soon. You read in books how people know theyre dying and their families do, but no one ever really mentions the signs. I know its a morbid question, but what are the signs?


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