Hi,
I feel like I am intruding into your private world to which I don't yet belong, but my husband (aged 47) has I believe dementia which started almost 3 years ago, when he appeared to suffer a mini stroke. He has had many of these 'mini strokes' since and in the last 12 months his memory, personality, social skills etc etc have become much worse. He is not yet diagnosed and is very resistant to admitting he needs help or wanting to get help. Over the past 3 years he has, mostly on my request, seen various doctors and specialists all of whom can find nothing wrong, apart from one neurologist who agreed he had suffered some brain trauma following his 'mini stroke'.
Does anyone have any advice on how I can get him diagnosed? I have spoken to our GP on several occassions about my concerns but he can obviously only listen and needs my husband to go and ask for help, which he won't admit to or do.
Any ideas would be really helpful.
ps I am not some evil wife with a wild desire to have my husband diagnosed with Dementia, I just want him to get some help and be able to deal with it all better!
Thank you
I feel like I am intruding into your private world to which I don't yet belong, but my husband (aged 47) has I believe dementia which started almost 3 years ago, when he appeared to suffer a mini stroke. He has had many of these 'mini strokes' since and in the last 12 months his memory, personality, social skills etc etc have become much worse. He is not yet diagnosed and is very resistant to admitting he needs help or wanting to get help. Over the past 3 years he has, mostly on my request, seen various doctors and specialists all of whom can find nothing wrong, apart from one neurologist who agreed he had suffered some brain trauma following his 'mini stroke'.
Does anyone have any advice on how I can get him diagnosed? I have spoken to our GP on several occassions about my concerns but he can obviously only listen and needs my husband to go and ask for help, which he won't admit to or do.
Any ideas would be really helpful.
ps I am not some evil wife with a wild desire to have my husband diagnosed with Dementia, I just want him to get some help and be able to deal with it all better!
Thank you