Here's a news flash for you: don't get too cocky, because that is probably how she will die. Eventually most Alzheimer's patients lose the ability to swallow and die from starvation and/or dehydration -- a very painless form of death. Of course, well before that, they lose all cognitive ability. It is a brutal, heartless form of degeneration. The most you can hope for is a quick death.
Thanks for your insight. We pretty well know the routine, my great-grandmother also had alzheimers and was in a nursing home once she needed 24 hour care. We did have to feed her at the end, (Yes, me and my family did go up and feed her for many of her meals, if not us, the nurse would do it) mainly because she forgot how to eat, or what she was supposed to do with her food. In the end, she had heart failure one day, it was over very quickly. She was the most important person in my life and I greatly miss her.
I have a feeling her daughter, my grandma, will go the same way. We pray that God's will be done.
I must disagree with one point you made, I do not think starvation/dehydration is painless.
Since dying from starvation and dehydration is so painless, why have we worried about people who have been in famines? Why do we bother helping those people out who can't provide this for themselves? All this time I was under the impression that going without food was a horrible way to live, but now that I know better, I think the USA shouldn't spend any $$ on taking care of impoverished people of the world! /sarc