Dementia advancing

Anonymousjpl123

My mom’s MC called, then hospice social worker who visited. Dementia is advancing. She fell again (getting out of chair), doesn’t use walker, was up all night. I saw her last night and it’s true she REALLY just wants to constantly be walking around. They said the redirection has been hard. They have to lock peoples rooms because she goes in. She’s finally asleep.

They want to try a low dose of trazadone if I’m ok with it. Any concerns?

They said her symptoms are all things they have seen. It’s just hard. What is best for me to do at this stage?

cdgbdr

My DH has been on Trazodone for 3 months. He sleeps very well and that along with some Seroquel has him in a usually good mood.

Quilting brings calm

We tried trazadone with mom, but eventually switched her to mirtrazipine ( generic Remeron). It did better keeping her asleep at night. Eventually sertraline was added too. None of that seemed to have any side affects for her.

Anonymousjpl123

Thank you both for the helpful info - good to know it has helped and no terrible side effects.

She’s already on seroquel which i why i was worried, but it seems that’s ok.

Anyway she fell again and is back in the ER. I just don’t know how this goes. She literally has no idea what’s going on. She’s in a good mood, was happy to see me (at the er) and said “this is fun” before they came to take her for a catscan.

Since the bad fall a few weeks ago and hospice This feels like yet another new and crappy phase.

SDianeL

so sorry. Hugs. 💜