Stage 6-7 Alzheimer patient?

Sorry, but once they break a hip, it is not much longer. I have seen it many times. It seems to be part of the way out of life for many old people.

Somebody I was very close to with Alzheimers simply decided not to eat of drink anything in his last days. He stopped allowing anything in his moith and even though he was extrememly weak, he could fight off attempts to give him sustenance. He died three days later.

Having watched it in a number of cases, I have come to the conclusion that many people, even though they seem incapable of thought, somehow are able to decide when their time is up and will pick almost the precise moment to leave this life.

A broken hip in advanced old age (75+) almost always equals going downhill/dying very soon after. Advanced Alzheimer’s patients are already extremely fragile. My grandma died age 86 from Alzheimer’s. In the weeks before she passed she refused food and wasn’t swallowing well either.

An 86 year old Alzheimer patient with a broken hip and no appetite is on they way out.

you rnight be right

Yes, it sounds like he's going south, a lot.