I’m a primary carer for my mother who has been diagnosed with logopenic PPA. While I understand this is a “rarer” form of dementia that primarily attacks the language centre of the brain and my mother undoubtedly presents with this as an issue, I’m not sure I really understand the difference between this and any other dementia as she also presents with all other memory and functionality issues.
We are at the stage where although she’ll happy chat (mostly nonsense) with people and wants to be social, she has no idea that I’m her daughter (I’m her friend) and is unable to really do anything for herself. She is absolutely refusing to wash, brush teeth, have her hair washed etc, and clearly demonstrates a fear of this.
When I’ve searched for help and ideas of how to tackle the hygiene issue, the most common response is you can’t and you just have to lower your own expectations and standards. While I can understand this to some degree, I absolutely cannot compute the fact I’m meant to just let my mother develop various infections (two UTIs so far).
When I attempt to encourage her to wash and try to do anything for her, she will change the subject, try to distract from it and will eventually become aggressive.
I don’t really see how external carers could make any further progress either. She has no respect now for medical staff or help and will equally become abusive and aggressive to doctors and nurses.
Can anyone please suggest anything, any methods or even give me some kind of hope that even if it means a further degeneration in her condition, that at some point she will become more amenable.
Thank you.
We are at the stage where although she’ll happy chat (mostly nonsense) with people and wants to be social, she has no idea that I’m her daughter (I’m her friend) and is unable to really do anything for herself. She is absolutely refusing to wash, brush teeth, have her hair washed etc, and clearly demonstrates a fear of this.
When I’ve searched for help and ideas of how to tackle the hygiene issue, the most common response is you can’t and you just have to lower your own expectations and standards. While I can understand this to some degree, I absolutely cannot compute the fact I’m meant to just let my mother develop various infections (two UTIs so far).
When I attempt to encourage her to wash and try to do anything for her, she will change the subject, try to distract from it and will eventually become aggressive.
I don’t really see how external carers could make any further progress either. She has no respect now for medical staff or help and will equally become abusive and aggressive to doctors and nurses.
Can anyone please suggest anything, any methods or even give me some kind of hope that even if it means a further degeneration in her condition, that at some point she will become more amenable.
Thank you.