Dementia & Alzheimer's

Terminal Lucidity: Many Patients Experience an Unexplained Return of Mental Acuity in Their Final Days

The phenomenon is not new, and instances have been recorded in medical literature going back to the 19th century.
Terminal Lucidity: Many Patients Experience an Unexplained Return of Mental Acuity in Their Final Days
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Emma Suttie
Emma Suttie
D.Ac, AP
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The case study of Anna Katherina Ehmer is one of the most famous studies of terminal lucidity, a phenomenon that continues to baffle researchers.

Ms. Ehmer, known as Käthe, was a German woman born severely disabled in 1895. At 6 years of age, she was sent to a mental institution where she would live until she died at the age of 26.

Emma Suttie
Emma Suttie
D.Ac, AP
Emma is an acupuncture physician and has written extensively about health for multiple publications over the past decade. She is now a health reporter for The Epoch Times, covering Eastern medicine, nutrition, trauma, and lifestyle medicine.
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