My Mums bucket list trip

[Jondai]

Hi everyone, I'm new on here and just wanted to ask if anyone had any experience of taking a loved one (suffering with alzheimer's) on a long haul trip. My Mum is now in the early mid stage I guess and we have just booked a 3 week holiday to Cambodia and Vietnam. I was the only family member able to make the trip with her as my father passed away a few years ago, but at the moment I'm more worried about the flight than anything because I hate flying!!! Anyway if anyone has any advise or experience of going away on holiday with a sufferer I'd love to hear from you. We leave at the beginning of June so not long to go really.

Cheers Jondai.

[shifty]

my mother in law is in a home and 1 of the residents with dementia was taken on holiday to the spanish islands and insurance for her was around £5,000 think you might need to check that out

[fiitay]

Hi there,

My Mum is 75 and mild AZ and VaD. Her and Dad go away for a month at a time to USA twice a year. When they went last year she managed to lose her bottom teeth and her hearing aid before they got there!! She managed a month without them and got replacements when they got home.
On the plane last time she woke up, stood up and told Dad she was going upstairs to bed. He reminded her they were on the plane and they had a good laugh about it.
Mum is on mediation and seems to have not deteriorated too much (touch wood) so they are going again in April.
I'm not sure about how much insurance they pay but know that Dad has declared her illness.
Mum still really enjoys their holidays and as they have been going for 10 years she still recognises where she is thank goodness.
I hope you and Mum have a lovely time.

Fi xx

[creativesarah]

there is an interesting book called Amazing grace : enjoying alzheimers by ray smith about his life with his wife he took her on holidays to places like india etc might have a few tips !

[Izzy]

My husband has moderate AD and we regularly go on holiday together. He was diagnosed 11 years ago and I started to declare the illness around 5 years ago. More recently I have also started to let people in hotels etc know when I book. I did this when we went to Morocco a few years back and they were very understanding. Also in Turkey which was as well as Bill disappeared from the room twice during the night!

I have never paid anything like that for insurance and we've been as far as USA. Bill is over 80 which makes insurance harder and I paid extra for a medical declaration. I still managed annual worldwide insurance for much much less than that. I used Flexicover and did it all online.

I have to say I am no longer considering far away/long haul destinations as tiredness has recently had an impact on his confusion.

Good luck. x

[snedds57]

http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/sc...documentID=158

That's the link to the AS factsheet about travelling. why not pick up a pack of AS helpcards to keep with your mum's passport which can alert people to her alzheimers?

I hope it all goes really well (and the flight for you!) I believe in the later stages travelling can make people confused and it becomes too difficult. In the early stages, I would say, GO FOR IT and enjoy! Take lots of photos!

[tre]

Having seen Izzy's response re flexicover I tried the healthscreening questions for my husband. I declared the condition Alzheimer's and got the response "there is no cover for this condition" . I was only looking at less than 35 day max trips within their annual travel and my husband is only 71 years of age
Tre