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Referral for CELA s
it is so difficult to choose a good elder care attorney. It is like taking shots in the dark. . Does anyone have a recommendation for Wisconsin or Indiana? So appreciate it.
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Articept
My mother just started to take it. What should I expect to see with these med?
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Off Topic: Oprah's Recent Weight Loss Shiw
Oprah recently had a show on TV on which she presented several obese people with medical conditions affected by being obese. She touted the effects of medication (semaglutide) to help with weight loss for the morbidly obese. I have no issue with this. But Oprah is not morbidly obese, nor does she have medical problems that…
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Sleeping late
Hubby used to get up 9-930 and used to go to the gym. He hasn’t been to gym for one year. Now he sleeps until 11:30-12. I do not bother him. A few times I’d ask him if he wants to go to gym but he doesn’t want to get out of bed. Some days he asks if he still goes to gym and I explain I’ve tried getting him up. He tells me…
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Re-posting in it’s own thread
Hi So comments in this thread (about anosognosia) are hitting home right now. But I need clarification. At what stage or point do you feel your SO is when you start noticing cognitive issues such as it is hard for them to talk to others, avoiding large groups, saying his brain isn’t working, not able to form sentences,…
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Seroquel Dose
My DH has been taking Seroquel for about 2 1/2 months now. I give him 25mg at 5:00pm every day. He falls asleep about 6:30pm or 7:00pm in his chair, and I wake him at 10pm to go to bed. He sleeps all night. It’s been wonderful for diminishing hallucinations and delusions and the anxiety that goes with those. BUT, most…
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Rapid Progression of Dementia or Alzheimer's
Has anyone experienced a parent with Alzheimer's having a sudden rapid progression of their disease? My mother was able to walk just a month ago. She began becoming unstable so we got her a walker. The walker wasn't cutting it so we got her a wheelchair. She seemed weak. One morning we weren't able to get her up and about.…
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Just wanted to say "Hello friends"
I've been gone for a while, but that doesn't mean I've forgotten about you. As the song said "You are always on my mind". So just a little update. It seems like every time I want to do something to help others, something gets in the way. I've been in contact with Jim Mangi (you might know him as "Toad"), the man who…
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Besoin de réponses
Bonjour Je suis nouvelle sur ce forum, mon mari a 62 ans et la maladie d'Alzheimer depuis janvier 2021, à ce jour je me pose beaucoup de questions sur cette maladie. Il vie cette maladie comme si il n'avait rien, refuse toute conversation même le mot Alzheimer. sur ce sujet. Comment lui faire comprendre qu'il faut que je…
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Thought it would be a good day🤦🏻♀️
Thought I gave DH an enjoyable day ? After stepping in his pee on the br floor this morning 🤦🏻♀️ then cleaning the BR making him breakfast going grocery shopping making lunch and taking him to our nieces HS lacrosse playoff game. Having trouble turning TV on when we got home Changed batteries. He proceeded to get in my…
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Living with dementia
:'( Im 4th generation Alzheimer’s on both sides of my family. My Father had ALS. I took care of him until his last breath. So now it’s my turn. I’m 65 and have been having memory problems about three years. I was pretty certain it was an early stage of dementia. It finally got bad enough to be diagnosed last year. But…
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Memory Care update
After a bunch of problems at my mom’s MC (staff turnover, two ER trips in 3 months, her constant complaints about the place), I looked at two other places. One owned by the same company, overlapping staff, bigger, more beautiful, and a friend’s moms had moved there, but not as good of a location. I met with current MC…
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How important is definitive diagnosis?
My DH had the usual tests when we first started noticing the memory issues - EEG, blood tests, MRI - nothing unusual showed up. He refused to go to the neuropsych testing when he realized what it would entail. Fast forward about a year and some doctor issues (had to get a new PCP, etc). I was able to get him scheduled for…
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triggers
PWD tend to "loop", to run through the same set of questions and comments repetitively. One advice is to eliminate "triggers", whatever it is that causes the PWD to enter the loop. I've been doing that already to some extent by discarding letters, etc., for which DW wants an explanation. But there's one trigger that's hard…
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What is wrong with me? (Rhetorical question)
Some days I wonder if I'm going to get though this with my sanity. Yesterday I actually booked a plane ticket and made reservations to travel somewhere by myself and then within a few hours came to my senses and cancelled the trip. I haven't left DH alone for more than 4 hours since March 2023 when I went to Asia for 10…
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Anosognosia - Does it ever go away?
So - my DH was diagnosed a year and half ago with moderate dementia - based on a MoCa score of 13/30. He has always had anosognosia and never thought there was anything wrong or amiss. Suddenly this weekend, he has been in tears twice saying that he wants to be part of the family and that he wants to be like everyone else…
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New day program was great until it wasn't
Thought we had a good thing going with DH new day program. He was having such a good time, happy to go in the morning and coming home in a great mood. It lasted 3 weeks. He aggressively escaped while the door was open for other clients to come in. DH ran out into the road, luckily he was not hurt. He is back in the…
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Sundowning and agitation
Can anyone help me with suggestions to help this. My husband hasn't slept through the night in 9ver 3 yrs. He is up/down, up/down all might ling. He goes in the bathroom at least 15x a night. He's now on Flowmaster which helps during the day but he claims he doesn't actually pee every tome he goes to the bathroom. It's…
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Does shadowing ever go away?
I’m not sure how much longer I can keep it together. I am with him 24x7. I don’t have help. He yells for me whenever I leave the room. Every time I move he needs to know where I’m going. He says he’s afraid and we need to be together all the time. It was more manageable when I was able to make a quick trip to the grocery…
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His speech makes no sense. Frontotemporal Dementia?
My DH had his appointment today with the Neuropsychologist. Three months ago she saw him, he spent a lot of time telling her the story that he was telling literally everyone he encountered, that he had been to the moon. Not a typical symptom of Alzheimer’s. But still that was my assumption since he has all the other…
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The Bright Side
Here’s a thread to share positive moments or ideas and tips on caregiving. I’ll start. *good weather today so we went to the dog park and to town for coffee…hubby enjoyed this *music always perks him up… *the more I treat him like my hubby while understanding his limitations (so going slow, being patient, having no big…
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Getting Ready to Place My DH in a Skilled Nursing Facility
Just found out my DH is in the late stage, not end stage AD and needs 24/7 care. He is now in a behavioral center to see what meds he needs to keep him mellow. He's been there since May 11 and all I do is worry about him because he can no longer carry on a conversation to let you know if there would be something wrong,…
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Flew home and found mom in self neglect
I am the youngest of 7, and my mother’s only girl. I’m the favorite and so I have the best relationship with her. My mom is 74, and I noticed something was wrong last year when she was showing some short term memory loss, not answering her phone, and making excuses to not fly to Colorado to visit her kids. Saying she was…
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Living proactively with MCI or early dementia
Dementia is progressive and in the early years no one knows if one's MCI will progress or not. I learned from the members to be proactive instead of reactive. This means trying to prevent or avoid complications, and to make decisions and plans for the inevitable future. Otherwise a crisis will occur and my family or a…
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I'm new here..
Hello everyone! I'm new to this website. I've been feeling very alone with my mothers diagnosis. We never really been to close even though I wanted to be. She also has bipolar. It's just been hard and it's difficult to fine people who understand. I feel very alone in this.
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I need help
Hi I’m really having trouble coping with my mother.She’s been forgetting a lot lately and repeating herself. I try to remind her of something’s she can’t remember but she gets upset at me. I talk to my children about it and she gets angry because she doesn’t want everyone to no her business. I tell her that those are my…
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Mom with Vascular Dementia
My late 70s mom has been diagnosed with VD. She is also a diabetic. Her short term memory is terrible, sitting and does not talk, sleeps a lot, personality change, cries, depressed, pain (real or real to her), unstable when gets up and falls often. Does VD progress like ALZ until total loss of memory? I find it strange…
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Moving home
So, I’m moving back home to help out. I’m an only child and my dad is having trouble taking care of my mom on his own. She fell at the beginning of this year and broke her foot and her shoulder. I ended up taking FMLA to help through her healing. I’m hoping that moving home will help me feel less exhausted. I went back to…
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I’m losing steam
Hi all. Caring for hubby 80 years old. Diagnosed in 2021. Sleeping more , bad eating habits, obsessed with tv remote, doesn’t want to do anything, doesn’t want to shower and shave. Takes days for me to get him to shave. He’s able to do adl’s on his own except needs help taking pants off. I’m scared of what’s coming and try…
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DH’s Geri psych retiring. Thoughts?
in a way, I’m glad Geri psych is retiring in a way. DH really likes him. He first got involved when DH had sort of a breakdown when his symptom started to surface and he became extremely depressed about 7 yrs ago. As his dementia advanced we stuck with him but I never had a lot of confidence in him and his ability to treat…