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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As far as how long she will live, how much medical intervention does she/you plan to engage in? If she got cancer, would she do chemo? Would she have a heart surgery? Where she (and you) are at with respect to medical intervention will matter for life expectancy.

My grandmother was basically like “nothing hard once I’m 80, I’ve had 80 good years.” So she got breast cancer and had a mastectomy, but no reconstruction or chemo. She took meds to relieve edema, but she wasn’t going to do dialysis. She would not have had open heart surgery, etc.[/quote]

This can be—I won’t say a blessing, but a way out of an unsolvable situation. But you can’t count on it. My mother in law lived decades with dementia. She was physically tough and in great shape and still intensely physically active despite losing so much cognitively. It was a difficult combination. Lots of broken bones from injuries because she had no understanding of her surroundings. But you can’t NOT treat a broken arm, you have to treat it. It can go n and on, and it’s awful.[/quote]

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