Hi Everyone,
I guess as we are all on here that we are all in the same boat!
My Mother in Law has dementia and myself and hubby are her main carers. Although not officially diagnosed her Dr says she has vascular dementia. We have had a memory nurse come to house to do an assessment and Thursday I am taking her for an MRI head scan. A date in April then to see the specialist for all the results.
At first it was just short term memory loss and repetitive questions and phone calls. Now she has started saying that builders have been in the house and whilst working they took her bank card. I knew this was not true but was away for the weekend and my daughter had all the phone calls and to be on the safe side cancelled bank card. The new one arrived and MIL decided that I should look after it, then forgot that I had it so then phoned bank and reported it stolen again so we are now waiting again for new bank card! We have today put a whiteboard by the telephone to remind her that she is waiting for new card as we were getting constant phone calls saying she had lost card or builders have taken it. We are now getting phone calls saying that she cannot find their wills. It is so sad to see her getting so anxious over these things and she is at the stage where she knows something is wrong with her head. If you were to meet her you would probably not pick up on the fact she has dementia as she can hold a good conversation with anybody.
Anybody else come across this where the sufferer gets anxious and obsessive over legal things and money?
I guess as we are all on here that we are all in the same boat!
My Mother in Law has dementia and myself and hubby are her main carers. Although not officially diagnosed her Dr says she has vascular dementia. We have had a memory nurse come to house to do an assessment and Thursday I am taking her for an MRI head scan. A date in April then to see the specialist for all the results.
At first it was just short term memory loss and repetitive questions and phone calls. Now she has started saying that builders have been in the house and whilst working they took her bank card. I knew this was not true but was away for the weekend and my daughter had all the phone calls and to be on the safe side cancelled bank card. The new one arrived and MIL decided that I should look after it, then forgot that I had it so then phoned bank and reported it stolen again so we are now waiting again for new bank card! We have today put a whiteboard by the telephone to remind her that she is waiting for new card as we were getting constant phone calls saying she had lost card or builders have taken it. We are now getting phone calls saying that she cannot find their wills. It is so sad to see her getting so anxious over these things and she is at the stage where she knows something is wrong with her head. If you were to meet her you would probably not pick up on the fact she has dementia as she can hold a good conversation with anybody.
Anybody else come across this where the sufferer gets anxious and obsessive over legal things and money?