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[quote=Anonymous]My grandmother with Parkinson's had severe dementia. She fell and broke her hip, crawled to a chair and didn't tell anyone for hours and hours. After we figured out she was injured, she had emergency surgery for her hip and died of an embolism in surgery. Honestly, we were relieved as there was no way she could have gone through PT to recover. She was terrified of the hospital, nurses and everything. She was continuously confused and agitated even at home (and despite meds), and near frantic in the hospital. Her quality of life was already long over. She didn't know us and saw scary delusions all the time. If it hadn't been her hip, it would have been pneumonia from aspirating food or a UTI or something else. We had been expecting for her body to fail, as her mind was already completely gone. She was mid-90s.[/quote]
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