Hi i would be interested if anyone has experience of what my Dad is going through. Dad is 74 and was diagnosed with Alzheimers in March 2013. My Mum was looking after him at home up until 6 weeks ago. He developed shingles and a UTI at the same time and had to go to a care home to give Mum a break whilst he recoverd. He has never come out of the care home as he has declined rapidly since these infections. He is now doubly incontinent and goes to the toilet in other residents rooms on their carpets and out of the window too. He initially refused to eat anything altho in the last week he has started to eat proper meals and not just the desserts. In the last week he is constantly wandering around the care home and will not sit down. He is absolutely exhausted and the care home staff say he must walk miles in a day. He is not sleeping at night and wont sleep in his bed .he sits in one of the chairs in the lounge and naps. He is on the strongest sleeping tablets they can give him but they seem to have little effect. It's like he has a compulsion to walk around and at times he looks like he could just fall over. I noticed today that around his ankes his feet have swollen up and they look bruised with purply dots on the skin. The CH says its because of all the walking he's doing . He also now has his head bent forward when he walks , altho when i asked him he could straighten his head. He looks a frail old man now and his weight has dropped to 10 stone. The CH manager said she has never seen such a rapid decline in a patient over a short period of time. Last week Dad had a funny turn and walked into the walls and had a temperature of 41 degrees.He apparently became aggressive and pushed a couple of residents, He went to hospital and within an hour his temp returned back to normal at 36.3. They said he had a chest infection and gave him antibiotics, since then he has declined dramatically in his wellbeing. I just wondered whether anyone else has experienced rapid decline over a short period of time. Dad has Alzheimers with frontal lobe damage. I would welcome any advice