Hi
Have just come home from spending Christmas with my parents and sister. My mum was diagnosed earlier this year with mixed dementia, possibly Alzheimers! She has been prescribed Aricept which after seeing her is not really easing the symtoms( possibly because she's not taking them, will explain later).
Arrived Xmas eve and spent the day with my sister, then arrived at my parents to my mum saying that "she needs to go home, cause hes fed up of her".
I speak with my parents 3 times a week, and most of the time, my mum doesn't beleive that she lives with my dad, or the house she lives. Her attention span is very short too.
Christmas day me and my Dad cooked lunch for 6, mum, dad, me,jon and my 2 children.
When dad realised that he hadn't taken their pills. He went to the bedroom and gave mum 3 pills and a glass of water, and went back in the kitchen.
When he had gone my mum said to me, i will take those two, but thats his tablet that hes making me take!!! And pushed it down the side of the couch.
Later when alone with Dad i told him what she had done and he said that the tablet i had retreived from the couch was her memory pill, left him to sort out how to give her it.
We then spent Xmas night and boxing night at my sisters with my mum and dad, and on boxing night she was aggressive towards my dad, who nearly left at this point. After a short chat he agreed to walk the dog and come back. We were all sat in the kitchen and as he walked in my mum pushed a piece of chocolate in his mouth, he was really mad and nearly lost it(temporarily i think).
He went and sat down, and my brother went to talk to him, asking if he needed help, but still he refused.
I know until he asks we cannot interfear but really beleive he is struggling now?
Has anybody experienced a similar situation?
Would love to hear if you have.
Sorry if ive bored you.
thanks for listening
Gillian
Have just come home from spending Christmas with my parents and sister. My mum was diagnosed earlier this year with mixed dementia, possibly Alzheimers! She has been prescribed Aricept which after seeing her is not really easing the symtoms( possibly because she's not taking them, will explain later).
Arrived Xmas eve and spent the day with my sister, then arrived at my parents to my mum saying that "she needs to go home, cause hes fed up of her".
I speak with my parents 3 times a week, and most of the time, my mum doesn't beleive that she lives with my dad, or the house she lives. Her attention span is very short too.
Christmas day me and my Dad cooked lunch for 6, mum, dad, me,jon and my 2 children.
When dad realised that he hadn't taken their pills. He went to the bedroom and gave mum 3 pills and a glass of water, and went back in the kitchen.
When he had gone my mum said to me, i will take those two, but thats his tablet that hes making me take!!! And pushed it down the side of the couch.
Later when alone with Dad i told him what she had done and he said that the tablet i had retreived from the couch was her memory pill, left him to sort out how to give her it.
We then spent Xmas night and boxing night at my sisters with my mum and dad, and on boxing night she was aggressive towards my dad, who nearly left at this point. After a short chat he agreed to walk the dog and come back. We were all sat in the kitchen and as he walked in my mum pushed a piece of chocolate in his mouth, he was really mad and nearly lost it(temporarily i think).
He went and sat down, and my brother went to talk to him, asking if he needed help, but still he refused.
I know until he asks we cannot interfear but really beleive he is struggling now?
Has anybody experienced a similar situation?
Would love to hear if you have.
Sorry if ive bored you.
thanks for listening
Gillian