Hi,
I am new to the site - but I wondered if anyone else had had a similar experience to me and so had any advice? My Mum fell and broke her hip 2 months ago and then suffered severe delerium. She has now been diagnosed with vascular dementia, but we seemed to have skipped the early stages and moved right to a very full on form. She recognises my brothers and I but not my children, is extremely agitated and aggressive, screams all day and most of the night, talks incessantly but makes more or less no sense and is unable to do anything for herself except feed badly and often refuses to drink.
This is such a shock... she had a few very early signs after having a few TIAs a year ago, but only difficulty word finding. The woman I visit in hospital now bears more or less no resemblance to my Mum, awful.
She did have a phobia of hospitals and maybe this has exaggerated her reaction?
Does anyone have any advice for how we can help calm her down? Visiting (which we do daily) is a truely upsetting and harrowing occasion at the moment.
Many thanks for reading
I am new to the site - but I wondered if anyone else had had a similar experience to me and so had any advice? My Mum fell and broke her hip 2 months ago and then suffered severe delerium. She has now been diagnosed with vascular dementia, but we seemed to have skipped the early stages and moved right to a very full on form. She recognises my brothers and I but not my children, is extremely agitated and aggressive, screams all day and most of the night, talks incessantly but makes more or less no sense and is unable to do anything for herself except feed badly and often refuses to drink.
This is such a shock... she had a few very early signs after having a few TIAs a year ago, but only difficulty word finding. The woman I visit in hospital now bears more or less no resemblance to my Mum, awful.
She did have a phobia of hospitals and maybe this has exaggerated her reaction?
Does anyone have any advice for how we can help calm her down? Visiting (which we do daily) is a truely upsetting and harrowing occasion at the moment.
Many thanks for reading