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About 5 months ago DH with Alz forgot how to turn on microwave…just stood there punching random buttons. I figured it was a sign he was progressing. Then a month or two later, he forgot that we had a garbage disposal and, in fact, didn't even know we had one. Another sign of progression, I thought. But since then, he has…
My father is bed-bound with late-stage Alzheimer’s in MC. He needs complete assistance with diaper changes, repositioning, eating and drinking. He sometimes resists care and screams and scratches during diaper changes, especially when being moved, so changing him really requires two people. My concern is that he sometimes…
Hi everyone, our family has noticed some extreme changes in our mother. Her mother passed from alzheimer’s/dementia. I’m not clear on the differences. How do we contact her doctor to evaluate them so that we can somehow help to alleviate some of the symptoms or at least make their doctor aware of the situation. She thinks…
My mother has recently been diagnosed with moderate level alzheimers. I have been able to distance myself as she has spiraled the last few years. Now, thanks to a tree falling on her house, I have been put in the middle of caring for her. She does not realize she cannot and was not caring for herself and continually…
Me and my brother are both helping to care for my grandad, my nan too and he has carers come in multiple times a day because it's a lot for us to deal with. He's recently stopped breathing, or struggled breathing every day for the last 7-10 days. Breaths every 30-40 seconds and in a lot of pain, he's had care come out for…
Hi - I’m new and have not posted before and value what everyone has to offer. I help care for my 91 year old FIL who is late stage Alzheimer’s and has been in memory care since January. My challenge is with my 89 year old MIL’s unfavorable behaviors. There was great resistance when we moved my FIL to memory care since my…
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…
UGH. I'm so tired of dealing with this immaturity! My mom has been having lots of back pain, but she refuses any sort of medical help for it, aside from Tylenol. As is common with AL, medications, including OTC, are not allowed in her room and must be dispensed by the staff. She knows this, she understands this, and she…
Hi, I am new here. I hear because I know my mom has been having some congnitive decline. She has had afib (controlled) for maybe 9 years and sees a cardiologist yearly for a check up. He made an appointment with a doctor to establish her as a new patient and oddly enough she was willing to let me go with her. I wasn’t…
How are you guys keeping your parents engaged? I cannot watch my mother all the time and I find that she needs constant interaction.
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