Hi everyone
My Father, who has severe dementia is now not eating for 2-3 days and then eating 2-3 days. The best I can put it is that is appears to have forgotten how to eat, and then remembers.
Is this something that is typical of the downward spiral of this disease, or could there be something more fundamental going on, that would need some medical intervention? He's a funny kind of guy and he's shown cycles of this in the past, so eating one day, then not, just because, but now the lengths of stopped eating are getting longer....he looks fine and is not losing weight, at this point.
My Father, who has severe dementia is now not eating for 2-3 days and then eating 2-3 days. The best I can put it is that is appears to have forgotten how to eat, and then remembers.
Is this something that is typical of the downward spiral of this disease, or could there be something more fundamental going on, that would need some medical intervention? He's a funny kind of guy and he's shown cycles of this in the past, so eating one day, then not, just because, but now the lengths of stopped eating are getting longer....he looks fine and is not losing weight, at this point.