87 results for “progressive dementia”
51y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia in a woman with Down syndrome and Alzheimer's dementia
Angela Thompson, a 51-year-old woman with Down syndrome and early-onset Alzheimer's dementia, died from aspiration pneumonia following a shoulder fracture. She was in DHS supported residential care …
82y · Male·hypostatic pneumonia
An 82-year-old man with dementia and multiple comorbidities died of hypostatic pneumonia following complications from a fall at a resident…
64y · Male·End stage Alzheimer's Disease secondary to Trisomy 21
Gerard Richard Bailey, a 64-year-old man with Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease, died from end-stage Alzheimer's disease at Bendigo Hospital following a series of seizures. He had recently been diagnosed with epileps…
81y · Female·Multisystem failure in the setting of hyponatraemia secondary to chronic malnutr…
An 81-year-old woman with chronic schizophrenia, heart failure, and dementia died from multisystem failure secondary to severe malnutrition and hyponatraemia. Over four years, her so…
80y · Male·Bronchopneumonia complicating terminal palliative care in an elderly man with ch…
Aurelio Monterlegre Cruz, an 80-year-old man with complex medical conditions including chronic renal failure, ischaemic heart disease, diabetes, and COPD, died of bronchopneumonia complicating terminal palliative care wh…
84y · Male·Gunshot wound to the head
Raymond John Cox, an 84-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease, depression, and cognitive decline, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. His wife had approached police in 2013 seeking assistance to remove …
75y · Female·pyelonephritis and pneumonia
…ic care continuously for 53 years. During her final week at Roy Fagan Centre, Dr R. failed to recognise progressive bacterial infection presenting as fever, tachycardia, tachypnoea and other vital sign abnormalities. He…
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