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Washington University Experience | NEURODEGENERATION | Pick Disease | 1A0 Case 1 History
Case 1 History ---- The decedent was a 79-year-old female with a 10 year history of gradual onset dementia with a decline in cognition. In the early years, the onset was primarily behavioral such as turning on all the music boxes in a room. She became disinhibited and would make inappropriate statements or use obscene gestures. She developed short term or amnestic memory loss, had classic repetition of statements, forgot events and details. She was admitted to a long term care facility seven years prior to her death due to impairment in her ADL’s. More recently she began to lose language skills. The patient eventually decreased her oral intake and expired from advanced dementia and inanition.
