My mum is entering into the late phase. She knows who we are but often mixes up names. She is in living assisted accommodation but thinks she's in a home which is becoming a nuisance to the staff.
We have carers in twice a day for medication and a district nurse to help administer insulin as she's a diabetic.
She's in hospital at the moment with a foot infection caused by diabetes, it's one foot ulcer after another and the infection causes delusion which has been ongoing for the last 2 weeks. I.e. she thinks all the women in the ward are gay men!
They can't seem to control the infection so I don't know what will happen. She's already had a toe amputated a few years ago.
On a day to day basis, she can walk to the shops but forgets what she went for so goes backwards and forwards. She has meals on site as she cannot fend for herself and now couldn't make a sandwich. She can't remember what happened 5 minutes ago and on the whole she's now struggling with basic stuff. She also sleeps a lot and is depressed a lot of the time.
She has a cat which is her life, she's been allowed to have the cat but it's not allowed out so we have a litter tray which now she can't clean up, so we have pet care come in to empty the tray etc.
The nurses and carers think she should be in residential care but I'm holding off as long as I can. I've rung various carers but they don't seem to offer what is needed.
My gut feeling is residential care but it's so hard.
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We have carers in twice a day for medication and a district nurse to help administer insulin as she's a diabetic.
She's in hospital at the moment with a foot infection caused by diabetes, it's one foot ulcer after another and the infection causes delusion which has been ongoing for the last 2 weeks. I.e. she thinks all the women in the ward are gay men!
They can't seem to control the infection so I don't know what will happen. She's already had a toe amputated a few years ago.
On a day to day basis, she can walk to the shops but forgets what she went for so goes backwards and forwards. She has meals on site as she cannot fend for herself and now couldn't make a sandwich. She can't remember what happened 5 minutes ago and on the whole she's now struggling with basic stuff. She also sleeps a lot and is depressed a lot of the time.
She has a cat which is her life, she's been allowed to have the cat but it's not allowed out so we have a litter tray which now she can't clean up, so we have pet care come in to empty the tray etc.
The nurses and carers think she should be in residential care but I'm holding off as long as I can. I've rung various carers but they don't seem to offer what is needed.
My gut feeling is residential care but it's so hard.
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