There is no such thing as a few symptoms before the death of an elderly person with dementia. An elderly person with dementia may have symptoms such as drowsiness, confusion, poor feeding, diarrhea, and abnormal vital signs before he or she passes away.
1. drowsiness, confusion: dementia before the death of the elderly may sleep time will increase, and not easy to wake up, memory, orientation decline, and then may enter a coma state, and ultimately death.
2. Eating less: demented elderly before death usually gastrointestinal function degradation, digestive function, the elderly will have no desire to eat, even drip before death.
3. Bowel incontinence: Before the death of demented elderly people are generally muscle relaxation, anal sphincter relaxation, before the death of the general bowel incontinence.
4. Abnormal vital signs: blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory abnormalities, before death, all vital signs gradually slowed down until disappeared.
It is recommended that when these symptoms occur, first go to the hospital to exclude the possibility of other diseases, and active treatment.