We got both of my grandparents into a care home, with my grandmother having advanced dementia, and my grandfather a brain injury he got after a fall while going through hip-replacement rehab. Prior to that, my aunt, uncle, and rest of the family had been more or less 100% caretakers for them. Nurses would come by 2-3 times a day to give them medicine.<p>But even as the dementia (of my grandmother) progressed, the care facility was simply too understaffed and over capacity to take them in - it took us around a year to finally find a room.<p>Luckily the care they received there was good - but my plan is the following: If I get diagnosed with dementia, I'm going to end it on my own terms. Having witnessed dementia up-close as a caregiver, and then see other dementia patients...it is not a life. The person becomes an empty shell / husk of themselves.