Morning All,
Through a series of " unfortunate circumstances" ( read local hospital screwups) my dad does not have an actual dementia diagnosis but lives in a care home for people with dementia as he now needs 24/7 care.
He exhibits many symptoms of various types of dementia but nothing that would give me, as a layperson, a clue as to which type. I know types of dementia are just labels and don't matter in the scene of supporting him but I am desperate to understand his more obscure traits as sometimes I doubt the level of his dementia, does that make me a terrible person, I fear it does!
He has a total toilet obsession now but seems to have control of his bladder and bowel when he chooses but uses a lack of control as a means to get what he wants, an example of which is his latest overnight stay in hospital. He wanted to use the toilet but cannot walk unaided. The A and E staff were not willing to take him to the toilet so gave him a bottle which he refused to use saying that he would just "go where he lay" which he proceeded to do throughout the night!
Does this type of apparently manipulative behaviour fit with the pattern of dementia in anyone else's experience, he has no utis's or other infections to cause a reduction in cognition
Through a series of " unfortunate circumstances" ( read local hospital screwups) my dad does not have an actual dementia diagnosis but lives in a care home for people with dementia as he now needs 24/7 care.
He exhibits many symptoms of various types of dementia but nothing that would give me, as a layperson, a clue as to which type. I know types of dementia are just labels and don't matter in the scene of supporting him but I am desperate to understand his more obscure traits as sometimes I doubt the level of his dementia, does that make me a terrible person, I fear it does!
He has a total toilet obsession now but seems to have control of his bladder and bowel when he chooses but uses a lack of control as a means to get what he wants, an example of which is his latest overnight stay in hospital. He wanted to use the toilet but cannot walk unaided. The A and E staff were not willing to take him to the toilet so gave him a bottle which he refused to use saying that he would just "go where he lay" which he proceeded to do throughout the night!
Does this type of apparently manipulative behaviour fit with the pattern of dementia in anyone else's experience, he has no utis's or other infections to cause a reduction in cognition