Although I am newly registered I have been reading posts for some time.
I need your help as I am upset and at a loss.
My mother has lived with me for over 6 years. She has been diagnosed with Alzheimers for over 4 years. She takes Galantamine (for dementia) and Prozac (anti depressant) along with other drugs for heart failure.
Mum has recently ( 4 weeks ago) gone to live in a care home. There have been 3 serious falls over the past 5 months and a steep downward curve in her dementia which necessitated this. She is still very articulate, forceful and very very angry that she is living where she is. Mum wants to live with her Mum, Dad, brothers and sisters (all long dead).
My worry is that she has cleared her lovely room of ornaments, photos, knicknacks, brushes, combs, clock......everything personal and shoved them all into drawers because she states that other residents come into her room and steal them.
I have read that wandering and 'borrowing' things like this is quite common.
It is distressing to her as she enjoys sitting not in her room but the one lounges which is a good thing - but her room looks like a cell.
What shall I do?
I need your help as I am upset and at a loss.
My mother has lived with me for over 6 years. She has been diagnosed with Alzheimers for over 4 years. She takes Galantamine (for dementia) and Prozac (anti depressant) along with other drugs for heart failure.
Mum has recently ( 4 weeks ago) gone to live in a care home. There have been 3 serious falls over the past 5 months and a steep downward curve in her dementia which necessitated this. She is still very articulate, forceful and very very angry that she is living where she is. Mum wants to live with her Mum, Dad, brothers and sisters (all long dead).
My worry is that she has cleared her lovely room of ornaments, photos, knicknacks, brushes, combs, clock......everything personal and shoved them all into drawers because she states that other residents come into her room and steal them.
I have read that wandering and 'borrowing' things like this is quite common.
It is distressing to her as she enjoys sitting not in her room but the one lounges which is a good thing - but her room looks like a cell.
What shall I do?