Hello everyone
My mum hasn’t been diagnosed with dementia by the doctor as she refuses to go and until she agrees to see him or the memory clinic there’s nothing he can do. Mum is 77 and had a severe stroke 13 years ago which left her in a wheelchair and with aphasia where everything she says comes out gobbity goop. Mum started imagining things about 5 years ago but we are now at the stage where she sees and hears people in the garden day and night, she accuses my dad of having an affair with the woman next door and insists my husband has planted cameras in the gas pipes to the extent she got herself out into the garden and down the side of the house and was trying to pull the pipes out. She has managed to phone the police at 3am ( to which we all got a shock door bell ring) because someone was in the garden (in her mind). She hits, kicks and throws things at my dad, she has locked him out in the garden. She has thrown things at my husband too. She shouts and screams at the people in the garden day and night and has now said they are trying to break in the front door. She’s says there is nothing wrong with her and that my dad and I are mad. Yesterday she was in the garden trying to open the shed door with a pair of secateurs because she says people are sleeping in there. I’m starting to get worried that she is going to hurt herself or go wandering out of the front door when we are all in bed asleep. How do we get a diagnosis when she refuses to see the doctor?
My mum hasn’t been diagnosed with dementia by the doctor as she refuses to go and until she agrees to see him or the memory clinic there’s nothing he can do. Mum is 77 and had a severe stroke 13 years ago which left her in a wheelchair and with aphasia where everything she says comes out gobbity goop. Mum started imagining things about 5 years ago but we are now at the stage where she sees and hears people in the garden day and night, she accuses my dad of having an affair with the woman next door and insists my husband has planted cameras in the gas pipes to the extent she got herself out into the garden and down the side of the house and was trying to pull the pipes out. She has managed to phone the police at 3am ( to which we all got a shock door bell ring) because someone was in the garden (in her mind). She hits, kicks and throws things at my dad, she has locked him out in the garden. She has thrown things at my husband too. She shouts and screams at the people in the garden day and night and has now said they are trying to break in the front door. She’s says there is nothing wrong with her and that my dad and I are mad. Yesterday she was in the garden trying to open the shed door with a pair of secateurs because she says people are sleeping in there. I’m starting to get worried that she is going to hurt herself or go wandering out of the front door when we are all in bed asleep. How do we get a diagnosis when she refuses to see the doctor?