Hello all.
My dad was diagnosed with FTD a few years ago, I think it was around 2014/15. Dad will be 71 this April. We first started noticing changes to his personality, and he started to forget words. He had been a generally all round handy man and suddenly didn't know how to do the simpilest of things,he went from building garages to not knowing how to wash up! He has been fairly settled since his diagnosis, not that he will now go and see anyone, tbh I think the memory clinic and gp's have forgotten about him. He lives at home with my mum and for her , it is like having an overgrown toddler to look after, he has gone from being sociable and active to , in the last half a year or so, not leaving his dining room, where he smokes and usually watches a screen with no volume and unless its football, he doesn't know what he is watching , just says "I'm watching this". The most myself or my children can get out of him is " hello, are you going? goodbye" and that is when we have just walked in! He will not wash, brush his teeth or even change his clothes now, and nothing mum does can encourage him to do it, and to be frank, he smells! Please, does anyone have any ideas on how we can get him to look after himself (with mums help ) ?
sorry if this seems a garbled post, I don't really know what I am doing !
My dad was diagnosed with FTD a few years ago, I think it was around 2014/15. Dad will be 71 this April. We first started noticing changes to his personality, and he started to forget words. He had been a generally all round handy man and suddenly didn't know how to do the simpilest of things,he went from building garages to not knowing how to wash up! He has been fairly settled since his diagnosis, not that he will now go and see anyone, tbh I think the memory clinic and gp's have forgotten about him. He lives at home with my mum and for her , it is like having an overgrown toddler to look after, he has gone from being sociable and active to , in the last half a year or so, not leaving his dining room, where he smokes and usually watches a screen with no volume and unless its football, he doesn't know what he is watching , just says "I'm watching this". The most myself or my children can get out of him is " hello, are you going? goodbye" and that is when we have just walked in! He will not wash, brush his teeth or even change his clothes now, and nothing mum does can encourage him to do it, and to be frank, he smells! Please, does anyone have any ideas on how we can get him to look after himself (with mums help ) ?
sorry if this seems a garbled post, I don't really know what I am doing !