Forum: Support for people with dementia and their carers

It's been a long time since I've posted on here - mainly because I've been busy. Life has become very complex. Nana has now been given an official diagnosis of Dementia with Lewy Bodies - the same as Grandad. She deteriorated very quickly and so we had to move her into a care home straight away...

... not quite as scandalous as it seems, but I'm finding it a little inappropriate. My mum was in a CH a long drive from me for a year - nice and no problems apart from the distance. I asked, from the outset, that she be moved, if ever possible, to another CH in the same group nearer me (she's LEA...

it never ceases to amaze me what things my mum does ! i went to make a cup of tea today . needed to top up the kettle only to find 2 tea bags in the kettle with 1/2 pint of water .. < a new invention !!! > decide to have a healthy dinner and fancied beans on toast , put bread in toaster...

So I have had a rough day, overseeing the emptying of my gran's house following her move to the CH six months ago. I have had no help with the house clearance and sale except from my own hubby and children. I have one brother, one uncle (gran's son), and four cousins. NONE has offered to...

I find it hard to talk about what is happening to mum. I either want to cry or feel angry or feel like I'm whinging so I stick my brave face on and carry on. Except I don't carry on. It all goes round and round my head, almost constantly. I struggle to concentrate. Today was what I call a...

Sorry about the long post, just got to get it off my chest Yesterday we got MIL up at 0600hrs to go to France. (this has been booked months ago) She was happy except all the way down in the car all she could talk about was how gloomy the day was. We were meeting friends over there and going to...

.... What do you do when you get more critique than "praise"??? when you look after loved one, all the good stuff you do get ignored and the "bad" stuff you do gets ""raked over".?? *NOT THAT YOU LOOK FOR PRAISE.......YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN..."

Hello, im new to this forum, my husband was diagnosed with alzheimers last july and is on a programme of treatment which seems to have helped quite a bit. However he had to have a driving assessment on 20th april and we have literally just been informed that his licence hass been revoked as...

Hi My mother in law is living on her own at the moment with no family near by. She kind of manages but we have arranged private carers to call in twice a week to check on medicines and check the fridge, and to offer any other support she will accept. It isn't going well, on our visit this...

I took mum out for birthday lunch yesterday. It didn't go well as mum didn't eat much and put most of her meal onto her napkin next to her plate. She also didn't quite get to the loo cubicle in time so I asked restaurant manager for a mop and bucket and cleaned up. Luckily the restaurant is very...

MIL moved into a residential nursing home from hospital at the end of March. I've finally cleared the house and BIL is going to put it on the market this week. As the brothers have POA there aren't any problems to face with this. HOWEVER, BIL rang yesterday and is insisting that we tell her...

I JUST CAME BACK TO SAY A BIG THANK YOU TO TALKING POINT AND TO ALL OF YOU WHO WROTE SUCH WONDERFUL WORDS OF SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT. WHEN I FIRST CAME HERE I WAS AT THE END OF MY TETHER AND DON'T KNOW WHAT I WOULD HAVE DONE WITHOUT YOU. MY DARLING FATHER DIED LAST THURSDAY BUT I WANT YOU ALL TO...

Has anyone got a husband with dementia and C.O.P.D. Last year not long after my husband was diagnosed with dementia he went into hospital 6 times with pneumonia. after this he was worse. We had moved nearer to our two sons and we did get quite a lot of help from the C.O.P.D. nurses, for which I...

Hello. My mum is currently in hospital after breaking her hip. This is her second admission this year and in total I think she has only been at home for about 5 weeks since the year began. She has past history of mental health problems, two to three years ago she was diagnosed with mixed...

help! Mum was diagnosed with vascular dementia 3 years ago she is 85. She was admitted to hospital with a UTI and had a slight fall. Whilst in hospital she morphed into an agressive, abusive person and was quite threatening to other members of the nursing staff. She had a diarrhea bug which didn't...

My 75 year-old sister-in-law,who lives in a residential home,seems to be showing signs of dementia. She's wandering the corridors at night saying she's going back to where she last lived in the midlands,hallucinating about people on the radio,eating very little or refusing to eat completely,and...