I was very keen in my 10-year caregiver role as it concerns high level nutrition and supplements and the great success of it was the controlled mis-behavior including thru sundowning episodes without any nasty antipsychotic poison...However thru the brutal mid and late stages to end of life the coffee remained a learned daily comfort and it continued without any harm...Dad knew to his last breath that a cup of shared coffee precipitated conversation and fellowship and I am grateful I never took that treat away from him and our important relationship!

If that is a small pleasure for her…let her enjoy it!

I'm glad to hear you give deserts. I believe desert is as important as veggies in a meal. So many cut the diet so deep it becomes a punishment for the patient. When my husband got alzheimers, my first alzheimers rodeo I'm in my second rodeo now, I let him have what ever he wanted. Within reason. He was never going to get well. So why punishment him for having something he didn't ask for.

While I am now 3 years after my Mom’s passing (and in the prior 8 years I accompanied her through all 7 stages of Alzheimer’s, ending in an incapacity to eat or drink), I can confidently say that drinking coffee or other caffeinated drink had no negative impact whatsoever — and as to any positive one that may have occurred, I would have likely ascribed it to something else more positive (like doing artwork or puzzles).

My mom is turning 90. Has a case of small Pepsi a week. I argue but my stepfather says let her enjoy