Just wondering if anyone has any experience of looking after someone with late stage dementia who develops compulsive walking? My husband is in residential care now and is capable of walking up to 25 miles per day up and down the corridor in the care home. He was losing weight and the staff were finding it difficult to get him to sit down to eat, but we have been working on that issue for a few months and things are now stable in terms of his weight. But now bowel incontinence has kicked in quite suddenly and the staff are sometimes finding it difficult to change him. He is currently on Aricept, Memantine (10mg) and Mirtazapine (30mg). He started on the Mirtazapine about 18 months ago and it made a big difference i.e. the pacing reduced, but I don't know whether it's just wearing off or whether it's just that the dementia is now worse ... It definitely used to be an anxiety thing but I don't feel it is anymore, I think it's now just a habit / compulsion ... We've got an appointment to see his neurologist on 16 May but the various medical professionals we have involved in his care at the moment are all quite anti-medication so I don't think anyone is going to push for any changes in his medication ... but if anyone has any experience of any medication which helped such an issue, I would like to discuss it with his neurologist ...
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