Hi,
I am new to this forum and find it a great help, thank you to all contributors.
My mum has dementia and my father is the carer. He is 79 and she is 77. My dad really struggles as my mum can get very argumentative. She locked him in the conservatory recently and gets very unreasonable. I don’t know what to do as my dad says he’s waiting to hear about a care package but no one is getting back to him. He is reluctant to call them as my mum over hears and starts getting annoyed with him.
He’s very caring and I think he’s not wanting to put my mum into care. They have been married for 45 years and she doesn’t remember marrying him and thinks he is lying about his relationship, can anyone suggest anything that I can do? I support them both obviously but I feel he’s not strong enough to do anything about this.
I am new to this forum and find it a great help, thank you to all contributors.
My mum has dementia and my father is the carer. He is 79 and she is 77. My dad really struggles as my mum can get very argumentative. She locked him in the conservatory recently and gets very unreasonable. I don’t know what to do as my dad says he’s waiting to hear about a care package but no one is getting back to him. He is reluctant to call them as my mum over hears and starts getting annoyed with him.
He’s very caring and I think he’s not wanting to put my mum into care. They have been married for 45 years and she doesn’t remember marrying him and thinks he is lying about his relationship, can anyone suggest anything that I can do? I support them both obviously but I feel he’s not strong enough to do anything about this.