I'm just off the phone (3rd time today) to mum who was weeping and desperately upset as she feels no one bothers with her. Unlike many people she is lucky that all our family have pulled together and ensure that she has visitors every day, on top of the carers visits three times a day. But mum cant remember something that happened five minutes ago let alone visitors or carers, and hence she feels so lonely and isolated. She has many physical health problems which don't help either.
With the help of social work/doctor/ etc we have done everything we can think of to help make her safe at home.
How do I stop feeling guilty that I can't be with her 24/7? I spend at least two and sometimes three full days a week with her (so much for my retirement) and the family cover the other days for visits after work. I worry about her when I am not there hence I'm phoning her constantly which has now become a necessity for me.
This disease is the worst thing that can happen to anyone...
With the help of social work/doctor/ etc we have done everything we can think of to help make her safe at home.
How do I stop feeling guilty that I can't be with her 24/7? I spend at least two and sometimes three full days a week with her (so much for my retirement) and the family cover the other days for visits after work. I worry about her when I am not there hence I'm phoning her constantly which has now become a necessity for me.
This disease is the worst thing that can happen to anyone...