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The other obvious suggestions to a sudden change would be: mouth ulcers, possible caused by rubbing dentures; oral thrush; a throat infection. Anything that would cause chewing to be painful or...

I don't think it will do any harm, but if there is a bacterial infection as well this won't be sufficient to clear it, although it might help over the weekend. The GP will have a range of creams...

I have noticed recently that although my mum can still use a knife and fork to gather her food and raise a portion to her mouth, she has lost the ability to co-ordinate using them to cut up meat or...

Dear A15, what a scary time for you all. Your post reminded me of something that was said to me on a recent visit to a local CH that we were checking out as a possible place for MIL. The...

If the problem is originally fungal then soothing creams like Sudacrem can just feed the fungus. If it is really sore then there is probably bacterial infection as well due to broken skin. I would...

A Frazzle is a frayed end or remnant, but it is also a Muppet! What you might look like if you didn't have a washing machine! http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Frazzle

I would recommend 'The Nation's Favourite Poems' or 'The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems' which are available in print versions,
or 'The Nation's Favourite Comic Poems' or 'The Nation's...

I've read that you should draw the curtains and turn the lights on before sundowning starts, to keep the light stimulus going, because there can be a dramatic change in mood if the person with...

That's why I was suggesting that if you can't get LPA then setting up joint access to bank accounts allow you to pay bills online. If you can look at her current bills you can also help her to set...

I was unable to have POA for my mum because there was an existing LPA made out to a friend of the family who wasn't able to take up their duties (long story) and my mum had lost capacity to grant a...

It sounds as if they did a dip test on the urine sample. This does not always detect infection - that requires the sample to be sent away to the lab to be cultured. I would insist on having this...

I don't know if this suggestion would help because our circumstances were slightly different. My father died suddenly at home 6 years ago, prior to my mother developing dementia, although she was...

Oh dear, I am sorry for his sake to hear that he regrets the marriage. If he wants out, he could apply immediately for an annulment. However, the grounds for this would probably be non-consummation...

Does she have a cup with a spouted lid? She might find this easier to use and someone can help her to drink with it because once it is in her mouth they can tip it for her. I do understand your...

I think it precisely because she has no idea of time/days of the week that she pulls at your heart strings in this way. We have found with MIL that as this perception disappears she has become more...

I would suggest that his wife's thoughts might be any of the following:

His children don't understand. Everyone gets forgetful at his age, it doesn't mean he is losing his marbles.
I don't want...

I don't 'blame' any one factor for MIL developing dementia. It is likely that her vascular damage was a result of long-standing heart problems. I do, however, think that in recent years she has...

I would recommend that she visits some CHs, especially those for people with dementia, to see how they assist people to eat. We recently visited a nursing EMI home and there was a whole range of...

When I visit my mother's house I sleep in the bedroom where my father died 6 years ago. I have never felt that he was lingering; I have never thought he was in that room, or that house, in any way. ...

My mum was always an energetic and skilled gardener, poring through seed catalogues on winter evenings, ordering shrubs, getting exciting when these wrapped parcels of sticks arrived and she could...

We have been informed by SS in both MIL's local authority (England) and my mum's (Scotland) that they no longer have 'named' SWs. If you have an assessment or intervention you can normally expect...

I would endorse the recommendation to describe things as they are on a bad day, without telling untruths. As an example, we submitted an application for AA for MIL 3 weeks ago. Since then she has...

I suspect she is worried about feeling in the power of strangers and, because of her dementia, can go from thinking about a possible bad thing that could happen to turning this into a 'memory' of...

Welcome to TP Tamarind! I'm sorry you feel so far away from your mum and unable to make the connections that you need.

My mum receives weekly phone calls from one of her sons. She enjoys these...

I recently visited a CH where I was told that some residents of the secure unit were ex-SAS and therefore staff had to be very vigilant with people who were trained in escape skills!

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