Hi
I am new to this, so please forgive any mistakes
My mother in law has been living with us for a year now due to having Parkinson’s with Lewy body dementia. She is mobile(ish) and able to clean and dress herself ( with a few mistakes)
The hardest thing is her hallucinations, she lives in a constant fantasy world where people talk to her, animals infest her bed and someone hits her while in bed. I must reiterate that this is all fantasies, dreams and hallucinations.
It is almost impossible to talk her down from these things and it is most distressing for my husband and myself
Currently she has been talking incessantly about a letter to see a flat that she is thinking of moving into. Obviously this is another dream/fantasy.
Does anyone have any hints or tips in talking her out of these fantasies as we are both at the end of our tether with this
I am new to this, so please forgive any mistakes
My mother in law has been living with us for a year now due to having Parkinson’s with Lewy body dementia. She is mobile(ish) and able to clean and dress herself ( with a few mistakes)
The hardest thing is her hallucinations, she lives in a constant fantasy world where people talk to her, animals infest her bed and someone hits her while in bed. I must reiterate that this is all fantasies, dreams and hallucinations.
It is almost impossible to talk her down from these things and it is most distressing for my husband and myself
Currently she has been talking incessantly about a letter to see a flat that she is thinking of moving into. Obviously this is another dream/fantasy.
Does anyone have any hints or tips in talking her out of these fantasies as we are both at the end of our tether with this