Hi, hoping to get some advice.
About october 2017 my sister and I noticed our father was getting very forgetful and was not his usual self.
He had a memory test and was told it was due to the results they diagnosed early onset alzhemiers/dementia and has steadily been declining.
Unfortunately, in Dec 2019 he fell down the stairs fracturing his skull and had a bleed on the brain ? and spent the next 3 months in rehab and was discharged in Feb 2020.
He ended back up in hospital about 2 weeks with a water infection and only came out last week but, this latest stay in hospital has really knocked him as he has definitely got worst.
My sister is his main carer but, she works full time but, she says he calls out too her at least every 5 minutes saying he is uncomfortable but, he can't say why and then he says its because he is lonely.
We are considerly residential care as my sister is at her wits end and I live 1hr 30 away though I try my best to help out at the weekends.
Really could do with some advice as we just don't know what to do and we are scared and feel guilty for thinking of residential care
Please help, many thanks
About october 2017 my sister and I noticed our father was getting very forgetful and was not his usual self.
He had a memory test and was told it was due to the results they diagnosed early onset alzhemiers/dementia and has steadily been declining.
Unfortunately, in Dec 2019 he fell down the stairs fracturing his skull and had a bleed on the brain ? and spent the next 3 months in rehab and was discharged in Feb 2020.
He ended back up in hospital about 2 weeks with a water infection and only came out last week but, this latest stay in hospital has really knocked him as he has definitely got worst.
My sister is his main carer but, she works full time but, she says he calls out too her at least every 5 minutes saying he is uncomfortable but, he can't say why and then he says its because he is lonely.
We are considerly residential care as my sister is at her wits end and I live 1hr 30 away though I try my best to help out at the weekends.
Really could do with some advice as we just don't know what to do and we are scared and feel guilty for thinking of residential care
Please help, many thanks