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Alzheimer's disease: Anticipating end-of-life needs
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Create advance directives
Focus on comfort, not life extension
Consider hospice or palliative care
Connect through the senses
Dying with dignity
Dying with dignity
Helping someone who has Alzheimer's through the last years of life is a difficult journey. As the disease progresses, you'll make more decisions for your loved one. Among the most profound are decisions that ensure respect, dignity and physical comfort until the end of life.