I’m very conscious that I’ve been asking a lot of questions on here lately but every week we seem to be hitting another issue.
Every time I ring mother, she tells me she needs to go to the bank and also get food shopping. I’ve taken all her cash and cards off her as she was losing or hiding them and has forgotten her PIN or even how it works months ago. Her neighbour used to take her shopping until around last September when she got into a complete muddle with money and was also buying food she didn’t need (mostly because it was on the half price end of aisle!) which I ended up binning (30 tubs of butter for example) Even when I was a child living at home, she had a tendency to food hoard - if anyone remembers the sugar shortage in the 1970s, my mother was the one with 30 bags of sugar in the cupboard, just in case!
I have arranged meals on wheels, so I know she’s getting a least one hot meal a day, and have any incidental fresh food, like bread, cheese, fruit etc delivered by her milkman. However, she seems fixated or even obsessed with the need to still go to her local supermarket. I know she has plenty of supplies and doesn’t need anything but it’s continuous. I always ask her what she wants to buy and invariably it’s something I know she’s definitely got. Her shopping list for years has always been exactly the same - whether she needs the items or not! The same with the bank. She hasn’t needed cash for months because I have arranged payment for everything and she doesn’t go out but there is this constant talk about having to get money.
Is this yet another Alzheimer’s manifestation?
Every time I ring mother, she tells me she needs to go to the bank and also get food shopping. I’ve taken all her cash and cards off her as she was losing or hiding them and has forgotten her PIN or even how it works months ago. Her neighbour used to take her shopping until around last September when she got into a complete muddle with money and was also buying food she didn’t need (mostly because it was on the half price end of aisle!) which I ended up binning (30 tubs of butter for example) Even when I was a child living at home, she had a tendency to food hoard - if anyone remembers the sugar shortage in the 1970s, my mother was the one with 30 bags of sugar in the cupboard, just in case!
I have arranged meals on wheels, so I know she’s getting a least one hot meal a day, and have any incidental fresh food, like bread, cheese, fruit etc delivered by her milkman. However, she seems fixated or even obsessed with the need to still go to her local supermarket. I know she has plenty of supplies and doesn’t need anything but it’s continuous. I always ask her what she wants to buy and invariably it’s something I know she’s definitely got. Her shopping list for years has always been exactly the same - whether she needs the items or not! The same with the bank. She hasn’t needed cash for months because I have arranged payment for everything and she doesn’t go out but there is this constant talk about having to get money.
Is this yet another Alzheimer’s manifestation?