Hi I have just joined and thought I would introduce myself - my mum, who is only 65, was diagnosed with alzhimers only 2 and a half years ago - in the early stages I hear you say - but we have just been told she is in he last stages. It has attacked her so quickly, my parents have not had time to take about alzhimers and what was going to happen.
My parents live a 2 hour drive from me and my dad is my mum's full time carer. He has done so well looking after her, but things have just got to a point where he cannot cope anymore. She seems to be getting worse by the day. She has recently been in hospital to have her medication monitored, but dad was told there was nothing more they could do.
she is so violent, he has just been told that she even has to stop going to the Day Centre. Yesterday the final crunch came and my dad was told mum should go into a nursing home.
They arranged it and he took her (he was all alone), however, he called me last night he could not leave her there, he said the place was horried, he cried the whole time they were there and in the end took her back home.
Today the mum's social worker is visiting............
My dad feels that he is letting my mum down (he always promised he wouldn't put her in a home). He told me he didn't know how he would cope without her - they have been married 47 years this august.
Has anyone else out there heard of Alzhimers attacking so quickly.
Sorry to have rambled, but I really need to get to talk to someone about this I hope I have done this in the right place.
Debby Short
My parents live a 2 hour drive from me and my dad is my mum's full time carer. He has done so well looking after her, but things have just got to a point where he cannot cope anymore. She seems to be getting worse by the day. She has recently been in hospital to have her medication monitored, but dad was told there was nothing more they could do.
she is so violent, he has just been told that she even has to stop going to the Day Centre. Yesterday the final crunch came and my dad was told mum should go into a nursing home.
They arranged it and he took her (he was all alone), however, he called me last night he could not leave her there, he said the place was horried, he cried the whole time they were there and in the end took her back home.
Today the mum's social worker is visiting............
My dad feels that he is letting my mum down (he always promised he wouldn't put her in a home). He told me he didn't know how he would cope without her - they have been married 47 years this august.
Has anyone else out there heard of Alzhimers attacking so quickly.
Sorry to have rambled, but I really need to get to talk to someone about this I hope I have done this in the right place.
Debby Short