Hi I am sure that this has been posted about before but I don't use Talking Point much. Although I am not sure why as you lot are very helpful!
My grandma is 87. She has been living on her own but a couple of weeks ago she got a uti and ended up in hospital. She has never been the biggest eater but now she's home she's hardly eating anything at all. She now has 4 carers a day go in so we know what they are making her to eat and what is left over. Today she had a couple of bites of toast, half a cuppa soup and I went in and cut her a small slice of cake which i was quite adamant she was going to eat. She says she's not hungry but she's starting to look ill and lethargic. She's not drinking enough either. And her dementia is worse than when she went in.
We have tried the softly softly approach but today we tried to be a bit harder in our approach. She just gets nasty and sarcastic. She can't go on for much longer like this before getting seriously ill, which we have told her.
Any advice will be extremely appreciated!
Sarah xx
My grandma is 87. She has been living on her own but a couple of weeks ago she got a uti and ended up in hospital. She has never been the biggest eater but now she's home she's hardly eating anything at all. She now has 4 carers a day go in so we know what they are making her to eat and what is left over. Today she had a couple of bites of toast, half a cuppa soup and I went in and cut her a small slice of cake which i was quite adamant she was going to eat. She says she's not hungry but she's starting to look ill and lethargic. She's not drinking enough either. And her dementia is worse than when she went in.
We have tried the softly softly approach but today we tried to be a bit harder in our approach. She just gets nasty and sarcastic. She can't go on for much longer like this before getting seriously ill, which we have told her.
Any advice will be extremely appreciated!
Sarah xx