As we have discussed many times, Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disorder. Over time skills and abilities decline. What someone with Alzheimer’s can do one week is not necessarily what he or she can do the next week. So we all must acknowledge that a time will come when the patient with Alzheimer’s disease cannot live independently. What we as health care professionals and you as family and patient want to do is to delay the occurrence of this as long as possible.
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