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Hi everyone, This is my first post. Recently, my mum was diagnosed with early-to-mid-stage Alzheimer's. She is 67. This has hit our family pretty hard, especially my dad, who has taken on the mantle of primary caregiver. I still live at home, so I am exposed to the daily realities of the condition. Lately, she has been…
Mom is calling siblings, extended family and friends a huge amount of times a day asking for assistance in moving her back to her home from care center. An example...my sister received 30 calls on Tuesday and by early afternoon yesterday had 15. My brother received 15 calls yesterday and his wife as well. Care staff…
Hi folks, I have had my 97 yo Mother living with me since March. I am SO overwhelmed - she is snappy and mean most of the time - always right no matter what and I am so demoralized. My name is Faith. We just got accepted for TN Choices group 3 - which is crazy because she needs to be in a Nursing Home - just got accepted…
I posted back in April about my mother and struggling then. My Dad had also had hip surgery and everything spiraled out of control. Anyway things did calm down once my Dad recovered and was able to better manage the concept of working with my mother instead of against her Alzheimer's. However things have of course…
Unfortunately my mother’s Alzheimer’s has made her generally very snappy, angry, and anxious but then she’ll dip into periods of sadness/depression/quietness. The past couple days she’s been up and talkative and active, like her old self, which I am enjoying while it lasts. I know that as things progress there can be…
Sometimes we just have to find the humor in some of the ridiculousness this disease causes. The saga we have gone through with my mom surrounding her bed is just so off the wall, it's funny. She has complained about her various beds for years and years, blaming her back pain on every single one of them. She got a new…
Hello community, Dad has been in his new care home since Wednesday, so almost a week. It is much smaller and in a home-like environment. He needed a new place after a stay at a geri psych inpatient hospital due to behavioral expressions. The entire 2 years at his previous home we struggled to address the anxiety he was…
Our father has been going for extended periods (40 days at a time) without showering or changing his clothes, which has led to skin lesions. He also has incontinence issues on top of it. We are limited in our ability to intervene due to legal restrictions making these challenges difficult to address, especially when faced…
I'm new here, but desperate for help with handling these difficult things, and feeling like I'm really botching this pretty badly. A little over a year ago, I moved in to look after my Mom, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's when she was still somewhere in the middle stages. My family was never good with communication or…
Some days I just wanna read posts here and benefit from the sense of community and of understanding. As dad declines and my heart breaks, sometimes I just don't want to be around people who can't understand the things we do and see with our LOs. Maybe I could write a song called tears in the parking lot for those of us who…
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