Later stages of dementia

Everyone with dementia is different

The changes in your brain will be happening at a different rate and along a different path to other people with dementia.

Things can continue to change to a point where some people with dementia will require full care. Whether this care is provided at home or in a residential care facility will depend on you, your carer, your family and your situation.

Resources

• Planning for the end of life for people with dementia Paper 23, part one. March 2011. A report for Alzheimer’s Australia by Professor Colleen Cartwright. 
• Planning for the end of life for people with dementia. Paper 23, part two. May 2011. A report for Alzheimer’s Australia by Professor Colleen Cartwright. 
• The most difficult decision: dementia and the move to residential aged care. Discussion paper 5. 2012. Alzheimers Australia NSW .