Hi everyone,
My mum who is 84 years old, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s back in November, and lives on her own.
I have 2 sisters, so between us, we care for our mum.
She can dress herself, cook and generally take care of herself, which we all encourage.
She sees ones of us everyday, to help with cleaning and keep her company with chats and tea. Both my sisters work full time, I work part time.
We have seen her deteriorate over the past 6 months, in the following ways....i telephone her daily at 10am to check she’s taken her tablets (which are placed in a daily tablet dispenser,), she tells me she’s taken them by letting me know that eg Mondays aren’t there etc.....but when I see her shortly afterwards, I check her tablets, and they are usually still there. I don’t want to upset her by pointing this out every time, so we joke about it, any suggestions to how I can ensure she takes them?
Also, I have placed notices inside her front and back doors, reminding her to lock the doors, as she usually takes a nap in the afternoon....and occasionally, myself or one of my sisters have entered the house without the doors being locked....other than change the doors to lock from the outside are there any other suggestions please? Especially for the back door, as if we have her handles changed for the previously mentioned, we are frightened she might not get back in, if the door closes whilst she’s in the garden!
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me xxx
My mum who is 84 years old, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s back in November, and lives on her own.
I have 2 sisters, so between us, we care for our mum.
She can dress herself, cook and generally take care of herself, which we all encourage.
She sees ones of us everyday, to help with cleaning and keep her company with chats and tea. Both my sisters work full time, I work part time.
We have seen her deteriorate over the past 6 months, in the following ways....i telephone her daily at 10am to check she’s taken her tablets (which are placed in a daily tablet dispenser,), she tells me she’s taken them by letting me know that eg Mondays aren’t there etc.....but when I see her shortly afterwards, I check her tablets, and they are usually still there. I don’t want to upset her by pointing this out every time, so we joke about it, any suggestions to how I can ensure she takes them?
Also, I have placed notices inside her front and back doors, reminding her to lock the doors, as she usually takes a nap in the afternoon....and occasionally, myself or one of my sisters have entered the house without the doors being locked....other than change the doors to lock from the outside are there any other suggestions please? Especially for the back door, as if we have her handles changed for the previously mentioned, we are frightened she might not get back in, if the door closes whilst she’s in the garden!
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me xxx