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Re: Long term meds and medical screening
Thanks for the support thoughtful support everyone. I only wish that the Doctors had time to know their individual patients instead of blindly prescribing medication based on lab tests.2 -
Palliative Care
The geriatrician my DH sees has ordered palliative care and we've seen first a registered nurse and then a nurse practitioner. I wondered if anyone has experience with pallilative care and if it's he…2 -
Re: Soo mad
https://alzconnected.org/discussion/73023/soo-mad I have noticed that the most certain experts on child rearing are childless. What you are experiencing is the same.4 -
Re: Long term meds and medical screening
MILwAD, early stage 6 at the time, had a several day hospitalization for Giardia about 5 months before she died. When she got home she started either slapping away her meds or accepting them nicely i…2 -
Re: Is it necessary for Nurologist it ask same questions that upset patient everytime?
This is so timely, my husband had the Medicare physical it’s awful. First he had to fill out an online form with lots of invasive questions (which he got wrong) . In the office while the nurse was we…2 -
Long term meds and medical screening
My husband is seven years into this dementia journey. He has zero short term memory and confabulations constantly about places we’ve never been, ads he sees on TV etc. He can’t find anything in the k…4 -
Re: Long term meds and medical screening
I struggle with this as well. For me it depends upon how far along in this journey the PWD has traveled. Do you think he is capable of understanding what is being recommended by the doctor and make h…7 -
Re: Soo mad
Let us not lose sight of how the financial side of this adds stress and complexity to the decision. Decent memory care can run 10K a month in many parts of the country. Aside from the emotional toll …7 -
Re: Soo mad
I'm sorry. It's hard to feel judged and unsupported. When dad had dementia, I had 2 armchair quarterbacks weighing in on every decision which ironically rarely my decision given that mom was official…6 -
Re: Palliative Care
My wife was referred to an Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic. The appointment consisted of Myself, DW, a medical doctor, a registered nurse and a licensed care social worker. It was primarily a quest…4
Commonly Used Abbreviations
DH = Dear Husband
DW= Dear Wife, Darling Wife
LO = Loved One
ES = Early Stage
EO = Early Onset
FTD = Frontotemporal Dementia
VD = Vascular Dementia
MC = Memory Care
AL = Assisted Living
POA = Power of Attorney
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