My partners father has recently been told that he has 'local bipariatal atrophy' with no explanation of what this means (was from a brain scan) or how to deal with this. From Google, we now understand that this seems to be a type of alzheimers that only effects the parietal lobe rather than the whole brain though it can develop into 'full' alzheimers.
Effectively he has no memory issues but suffers severe hallucinations which revolve around a person who is trying to kick him from his home, push him over or steal money. He hides things and locks doors (including locking his wife and children out of the house) he swears and shouts loudly at this 'thing' and walks around the home using sticks, grabbing tools or other objects to beat at it, often breaking things around the house and also filled a spray bottle with bleach which he was using to spray on it.. They found out after the spray landed on his sons hand and his skin peeled off.
He also does this outside the house and delivery people have been unable to get in after seeing what looks like a "madman" often beating at the bushes outside with things.
He also can fall randomly and can be unreasonable. His follow up appointment was supposed to be in august (nearly a year after first expressing concerns and he is now much much worse!) but his wife has another doc appointment for the 10th in the hope of at least getting some help or clarification as they have just been abandoned.
But does anyone have any advice on dealing with these symptoms as we are at a loss. He is 65 years old
Effectively he has no memory issues but suffers severe hallucinations which revolve around a person who is trying to kick him from his home, push him over or steal money. He hides things and locks doors (including locking his wife and children out of the house) he swears and shouts loudly at this 'thing' and walks around the home using sticks, grabbing tools or other objects to beat at it, often breaking things around the house and also filled a spray bottle with bleach which he was using to spray on it.. They found out after the spray landed on his sons hand and his skin peeled off.
He also does this outside the house and delivery people have been unable to get in after seeing what looks like a "madman" often beating at the bushes outside with things.
He also can fall randomly and can be unreasonable. His follow up appointment was supposed to be in august (nearly a year after first expressing concerns and he is now much much worse!) but his wife has another doc appointment for the 10th in the hope of at least getting some help or clarification as they have just been abandoned.
But does anyone have any advice on dealing with these symptoms as we are at a loss. He is 65 years old