Hi,
I'm Martyn, new to this site. It seems such are great site with lots of useful information. Thanks.
My reason for joining is to do with my Grandmother(80). She is showing many symptoms of Alzheimers however its proving hard to get some sort of person or specialist to assess her.
Today my grandparents were round for sunday roast however later in the day she seemed to get confused. She thought that my family was in her home and that the children were playing with her things. This scared my children as she become very demanding telling them not to touch and that she was going to get the deeds to the hose to prove it was hers.
My granfather also 80 lives with my grandmother and is finding it hard. Most evenings she will wake up 3am not knowing who he is and screaming at him to get out her house! She also somtimes get out the house late at night and my grandfather is not aware, wandering around the streets.
It seems that to get help it has been a slow and tedious task. It hard for my grandfather to talk to anyone as she always asks "Who are you talking to?", "Why are we going there?". After visiting their GP he refered them to a specailist who said she was fine! Since then my grandfather has had the emergency doctor out (took 1hour) as she was screaming and being violent. Information was passed to their GP and a specailist is ment to come and assess her again! This was about 2-3 weeks ago.
Does the above sound like Alzheimers?
My grandfather mentions that she seems to get worse around 5pm onwards? Is this normal?
Other than chasing the GP is there someone whom we can contact to speed up this process?
Any help or advice would be grateful. Today is the first time that I have seen my grandmother like this and it is quite upsetting. Its even harder for my grandfather. I try and visit once a week but this isnt always possible.
Many thanks,
Martyn
I'm Martyn, new to this site. It seems such are great site with lots of useful information. Thanks.
My reason for joining is to do with my Grandmother(80). She is showing many symptoms of Alzheimers however its proving hard to get some sort of person or specialist to assess her.
Today my grandparents were round for sunday roast however later in the day she seemed to get confused. She thought that my family was in her home and that the children were playing with her things. This scared my children as she become very demanding telling them not to touch and that she was going to get the deeds to the hose to prove it was hers.
My granfather also 80 lives with my grandmother and is finding it hard. Most evenings she will wake up 3am not knowing who he is and screaming at him to get out her house! She also somtimes get out the house late at night and my grandfather is not aware, wandering around the streets.
It seems that to get help it has been a slow and tedious task. It hard for my grandfather to talk to anyone as she always asks "Who are you talking to?", "Why are we going there?". After visiting their GP he refered them to a specailist who said she was fine! Since then my grandfather has had the emergency doctor out (took 1hour) as she was screaming and being violent. Information was passed to their GP and a specailist is ment to come and assess her again! This was about 2-3 weeks ago.
Does the above sound like Alzheimers?
My grandfather mentions that she seems to get worse around 5pm onwards? Is this normal?
Other than chasing the GP is there someone whom we can contact to speed up this process?
Any help or advice would be grateful. Today is the first time that I have seen my grandmother like this and it is quite upsetting. Its even harder for my grandfather. I try and visit once a week but this isnt always possible.
Many thanks,
Martyn