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Because there are so many different kinds of dementia, it's hard to say how long each "stage" can last.
For the more aggressive dementias(vascular and Lewy Body)the life expectancy is just 5-7 years, while Alzheimer's can on for 20+ years, so your guess would be as good as any of ours as to how much longer your husband has in the stage he's in.
Just try to enjoy whatever time you may have left with him as there will come a day when you'll wish he was here for just one more day.
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You've been writing us for some time now, and I do remember, I think, that you are in close contact with medical in all this? They are certainly the best ones to discuss this with. Dependent on the type of dementia, and dependent on the overall health of the individual, as well as determination in personality, things vary a whole lot.
My brother had probable early Lewy's dementia. He so longed to beat it to his brain. He was, like me, a bit of a control freak. He liked his ducks all lined up and he feared loss of control.
As luck would have it, about 1 1/2 years into diagnosis, he got a very small sore on his shin which went into sepsis when he was antibiotic resistant. He got to come back to his rooms in his ALF with Hospice, and was able to do just as he wished, to die before Lewy's got the better of him.

I just think medical knows more than us, but medical may also be hesitant to make "guesses". I always say in dementia that you should expect the unexpected.
I wish I had a better guess.
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