Hello all,
I wonder if you could help me with your experiences please as I am getting little from care professionals. My grandma as suffered from dementia and alzheimers, mixed type for around eight years now. She has resided in a care home for just under 3 years. We received a phone call back in September to say that she was being placed on end of life care, and then a phone call again last Monday to say she had deteriorated quickly. I have visited her almost every day since and I have seen a steady decline. She is very tired and sleeping a lot of the time, unable to communicate and rapidly loosing weight. She is having mainly porridge and soup, some days eating and some days not. Her fluid intake is mainly ice lollies and sometimes fortified milkshakes.
She is given haloperidol for pain sometimes (but not everyday) and has morphine on hand should she need it. These medications were prescribed over the phone and no doctors or nurses have seen her since we received the phone call to say she was deteriorating last week.
It would be helpful to know your experiences, is this really the end of her life?
I wonder if you could help me with your experiences please as I am getting little from care professionals. My grandma as suffered from dementia and alzheimers, mixed type for around eight years now. She has resided in a care home for just under 3 years. We received a phone call back in September to say that she was being placed on end of life care, and then a phone call again last Monday to say she had deteriorated quickly. I have visited her almost every day since and I have seen a steady decline. She is very tired and sleeping a lot of the time, unable to communicate and rapidly loosing weight. She is having mainly porridge and soup, some days eating and some days not. Her fluid intake is mainly ice lollies and sometimes fortified milkshakes.
She is given haloperidol for pain sometimes (but not everyday) and has morphine on hand should she need it. These medications were prescribed over the phone and no doctors or nurses have seen her since we received the phone call to say she was deteriorating last week.
It would be helpful to know your experiences, is this really the end of her life?