Can doctors predict accurately how quickly someone will decline from dementia?

Or is that really difficult to determine?

[jaybea]

Hi ageing with grace. It is very difficult to answer, as there are a lot of factors that are considered - the age of the person, when the diagnosis was made, the support that the person has around them, if they are receiving the support of a memory clinic and are on any medication etc (even this can sometimes vary between the NHS Trust and Doctors involved), and the type of dementia that someone is diagnosed with. I would highly recommend the Alzheimers Society for further information and support - they also have a lot of factsheets that you can download or details of a local group. Hope this helps.

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Thanks jaybea.