My husband and I sold our property and my husband gave up his job so we could move in with his parents to become their full time live in carers. We have been living with them for a year and a half now and boy have they deteriorated in this time! My FIL also has Parkinsons Disease stage 4 plus dementia and my MIL have dementia we are going back for their test results in August but having already lived through this with my darling dad and knowing about Alzheimer’s/dementia they definitely have it. It’s just a case of which type. The struggle we are having is we have two 85 year olds who both have health problems (MIL also has heart failure issues) and both have different needs and approaches to their care needs. I’m not sure what I’m really wanting from this post just to say we are totally exhausted!! We have my MIL having daily episodes of not knowing that it is her home she is living in and then getting cross. Then forgetting her siblings have passed and getting angry and upset which is so sad and then my FIL has episodes of delusions and insists he has work the next day and needs to find his suitcase for a course he is going on for example and will try and get out of his chair very agitated and at risk of falling. We never know each day which one is going to kick off. Sorry if it feels like a rant just very tired.
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