My Dad turns 85 tomorrow. He is in a care home with advanced dementia. He is doubly incontinent, has trouble standing, can hardly walk without tipping over and mostly babbles. He has really slowed down on his eating and drinking of late but still manages about 2-3 glasses of thickened meal fluid stuff each day. He’s lost 6 kilos in the last 3 months but only 1 in the last month. He sleeps about 75% of the time. My gut is telling me that he can’t go on like this for more than a couple of months, but he’s been ‘living’ like this for the last 3-5 months so much so that palliative care discharged him. Are we in the end stages? Can anyone relate? I’m struggling to understand how to keep ‘normal’ living ie: making future plans for Christmas etc, while this runs alongside.