Hello, I wonder if anyone can help me please. My mother is 77 years of age and a few months ago when my father tried to go to bed she became upset asking who he was and what he was doing there. My father (78) thought initially she had just woken up and had been dreaming but since then there have been many episodes (mainly in the evening) where she doesn't appear to know who he is. She often stands at the window looking for her 'husband' coming home and the most common problem is that she says she needs to go 'home'. Sometimes she says her mother is home alone and she can't leave her so has to go but her mother has been dead over 25 years.
She has had my father out driving her around looking for her 'home' and when they get back to the street where they currently live (and have done for over 20 years) she spots the house and is quite happy. I don't know how long my father has been covering this up but has had to call me or my sisters several times now to ask us to tell out mother who he is etc.
On one occassion she told me she nearly died when "John" came back. I asked what she meant and she said she though he had died years ago but he just came back. She was talking about my father who has never been apart from her in 58 years of marriage. She kept saying he'd been away for years.
She has stopped cooking and he does it all but apart from this she is fine. My father says she is great all day but evenings are the time she becomes this way.
We have tried everything to get her to go to the doctor to no avail. She claims we are accusing her of going "off her head" (we are not) and says there's nothing wrong with her. I have searched many websites and read the symptoms of different forms of dementia but am at a loss.
Can anyone give me an idea as to what this is? Does it sound like the symptoms of Alzheimers?
Any help would be greatfully appreciated.
Thank you.
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She has had my father out driving her around looking for her 'home' and when they get back to the street where they currently live (and have done for over 20 years) she spots the house and is quite happy. I don't know how long my father has been covering this up but has had to call me or my sisters several times now to ask us to tell out mother who he is etc.
On one occassion she told me she nearly died when "John" came back. I asked what she meant and she said she though he had died years ago but he just came back. She was talking about my father who has never been apart from her in 58 years of marriage. She kept saying he'd been away for years.
She has stopped cooking and he does it all but apart from this she is fine. My father says she is great all day but evenings are the time she becomes this way.
We have tried everything to get her to go to the doctor to no avail. She claims we are accusing her of going "off her head" (we are not) and says there's nothing wrong with her. I have searched many websites and read the symptoms of different forms of dementia but am at a loss.
Can anyone give me an idea as to what this is? Does it sound like the symptoms of Alzheimers?
Any help would be greatfully appreciated.
Thank you.
I know