Any advice and thoughts would be appreciated .
My father in law has been a successful business man for years always counting his penny's would never spend money unless really had to etc , hated shipping etc lived for work .
My husband lost his step mother back a long to cancer nearly a year ago ..dad cared for her for several months then she ended up in a nursing home where she passed away a few months later .
Before she took I'll we felt dad had some very irrational behaviour and short fused he didn't seem to take things in even when you repeated things would get the wrong end of the stick and cause unnessasry Grief then mother took ill and we kinda got distracted from this and put his behaviour down to the fact he maybe had been covering or stressed that she was in well .
Any way things have become increasingly strained over months and months now irrational behaviour repeating same story's over and over , we have to repete ourselves over and over then the next day he would ask the same question like you never told him the answer before ! He gets aggressive easily but blames every one else , he came to work one day hoovered up the house wrapped the Hoover up took it away returned a hour later with the Hoover and said to a worker oh well done you hoovered the house our !! When it was him a hour earlier .
He would say hello to trades have a conversation with a chap ask him if he needed anything then go off for hour or so come back and say oh is so and so not in today when he was talking to him a hour earlier !
Then at Xmas a friend he's known for over 20 years saw him in town wondering around he stopped and said hello to him dad didn't recognise him at all this friend said he was concerned as he looked blank at him .. This is just a few things . His end of month bills I pay for him don't add up some totals he calculates will be more then the bill by a couple hundred one was short by over 2000.00 ! Considering how he used to be this is just all ringing alarm bells .. We Have said we are concerned about him he says there's nothing wrong with him we have spoke to his doctor she wants him in for a assessment .. Could this be dementia ?? One min he's fine like nothing's wrong then there's moments we question ourselves as his behaviour etc just not like him .. Any thoughts advice I would be truly great full
My father in law has been a successful business man for years always counting his penny's would never spend money unless really had to etc , hated shipping etc lived for work .
My husband lost his step mother back a long to cancer nearly a year ago ..dad cared for her for several months then she ended up in a nursing home where she passed away a few months later .
Before she took I'll we felt dad had some very irrational behaviour and short fused he didn't seem to take things in even when you repeated things would get the wrong end of the stick and cause unnessasry Grief then mother took ill and we kinda got distracted from this and put his behaviour down to the fact he maybe had been covering or stressed that she was in well .
Any way things have become increasingly strained over months and months now irrational behaviour repeating same story's over and over , we have to repete ourselves over and over then the next day he would ask the same question like you never told him the answer before ! He gets aggressive easily but blames every one else , he came to work one day hoovered up the house wrapped the Hoover up took it away returned a hour later with the Hoover and said to a worker oh well done you hoovered the house our !! When it was him a hour earlier .
He would say hello to trades have a conversation with a chap ask him if he needed anything then go off for hour or so come back and say oh is so and so not in today when he was talking to him a hour earlier !
Then at Xmas a friend he's known for over 20 years saw him in town wondering around he stopped and said hello to him dad didn't recognise him at all this friend said he was concerned as he looked blank at him .. This is just a few things . His end of month bills I pay for him don't add up some totals he calculates will be more then the bill by a couple hundred one was short by over 2000.00 ! Considering how he used to be this is just all ringing alarm bells .. We Have said we are concerned about him he says there's nothing wrong with him we have spoke to his doctor she wants him in for a assessment .. Could this be dementia ?? One min he's fine like nothing's wrong then there's moments we question ourselves as his behaviour etc just not like him .. Any thoughts advice I would be truly great full