u/Ok-Recognition597

When do you stop doing preventative care/appointments?

I know this sounds like an awful question. We're caretaking my husband's sister, who has moderate frontotemporal dementia at only 56 years old. Her primary care doctor still wants her to get mammograms, gyno checks, dermatology appointments, etc., and each appointment always leads to more follow up appointments and more things we need to do. I'm wondering if we can be done with these. I realize she could live another 10 years, however at this point we probably wouldn't do chemo or surgery anyway. She has no uncomfortable symptoms of anything besides dementia, and she's with it enough that she could still tell us if she did. I'm tired of doctor's appointments that lead to more and more. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

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u/Ok-Recognition597 — 1 day ago