Good morning.
My mum is 83 lives 200 yards from us in a flat which is partly warden controlled. We have a few issues/concerns here
She has moderate Alzheimer's & is rather bad on her feet now following a fall last July that resulted in several weeks in hospital. She also has COPD
My main problems are
1) she has declined & continues to decline help from Social Services, refuses help from the falls team, has returned all walking aids given to her & will not do anything really to help herself or occupy herself, even though she is bored.
She has no interests, wont consider trying anything new. She is pretty bad with any technology I.e cannot use a TV remote, Tassimo machine, video recorder etc - and so mobile phones & internet use is out the window.
With us now being in lockdown, and with almost everything normally left for me & my wife to try & do for her, am worried about her boredom & loneliness as well as getting her meds administered on a daily basis.
I have to physically take her meds to her daily as she gets confused & messes them up, has no idea (as in cant remember & gets confused) what to take & when - I've even tried writing it down, but thats not worked.
She cant get out on her own, her mobility is not good enough, cant get to the shops, so we would generally do her shopping - but again with lockdown, this has posed another problem.
She is in isolation for 3 months & I might end up being in isolation too, I'm trying to get hold of my GP to ascertain whether I need to as i suffer with chronic health conditions that suppress my immune system.
I do not know what to do & wondered if anyone else is faced with similar issues/circumstances & if so, what you are doing to help.
Is there a service to assist with meds on a daily basis ?
How can I introduce ANYTHING to try occupy a stubborn but lovely sufferer ?
No supermarkets have delivery slots & they're not even answering calls so cant order and/or ask them what we can do to get food.
Just need some ideas/help really
Thanks
My mum is 83 lives 200 yards from us in a flat which is partly warden controlled. We have a few issues/concerns here
She has moderate Alzheimer's & is rather bad on her feet now following a fall last July that resulted in several weeks in hospital. She also has COPD
My main problems are
1) she has declined & continues to decline help from Social Services, refuses help from the falls team, has returned all walking aids given to her & will not do anything really to help herself or occupy herself, even though she is bored.
She has no interests, wont consider trying anything new. She is pretty bad with any technology I.e cannot use a TV remote, Tassimo machine, video recorder etc - and so mobile phones & internet use is out the window.
With us now being in lockdown, and with almost everything normally left for me & my wife to try & do for her, am worried about her boredom & loneliness as well as getting her meds administered on a daily basis.
I have to physically take her meds to her daily as she gets confused & messes them up, has no idea (as in cant remember & gets confused) what to take & when - I've even tried writing it down, but thats not worked.
She cant get out on her own, her mobility is not good enough, cant get to the shops, so we would generally do her shopping - but again with lockdown, this has posed another problem.
She is in isolation for 3 months & I might end up being in isolation too, I'm trying to get hold of my GP to ascertain whether I need to as i suffer with chronic health conditions that suppress my immune system.
I do not know what to do & wondered if anyone else is faced with similar issues/circumstances & if so, what you are doing to help.
Is there a service to assist with meds on a daily basis ?
How can I introduce ANYTHING to try occupy a stubborn but lovely sufferer ?
No supermarkets have delivery slots & they're not even answering calls so cant order and/or ask them what we can do to get food.
Just need some ideas/help really
Thanks