My dad lived over 200 miles away from myself and my husband but moved in with us just over a week ago. He had been in hospital since January due to breaking his hip and whilst having hip surgery a main artery in his leg was cut, so he has had two recent major surgeries. Due to the Coronavirus situation he was discharged to my care without a care plan or an rehabilitation to help with his walking.
On top of all this we suspect that he also has dementia he was showing signs of this before his fall, I have spoken to his gp to try and get a diagnosis but they have told us we have to wait 6 weeks after being discharged from hospital.
My dad is extremely confused, his short term memory is practically zero, he keeps asking the same question again and again and again, he won’t believe anything I tell him, he is always right. He can’t remember to use his walking frame and when I try to show him how to use the frame he just doesn’t understand me.
He doesn’t sleep of a night time and myself and my husband are physically exhausted. He asks to go to bed and by the time we get him to bed he doesn’t remember asking to go to bed. He has become obsessed with things needing to be sorted out that don’t need to be sorted out. He needs assistance from us to walk to the toilet and when he gets there he doesn’t know why he is there so we have to explain it again and again to him, when he finally realises why he is there he then says he doesn’t know how his body works in order to go to the toilet. It’s taking over an hour just to get him to go to the toilet.
It’s an endless 24 hour battle and we don’t know where to go to for help.
On top of all this we suspect that he also has dementia he was showing signs of this before his fall, I have spoken to his gp to try and get a diagnosis but they have told us we have to wait 6 weeks after being discharged from hospital.
My dad is extremely confused, his short term memory is practically zero, he keeps asking the same question again and again and again, he won’t believe anything I tell him, he is always right. He can’t remember to use his walking frame and when I try to show him how to use the frame he just doesn’t understand me.
He doesn’t sleep of a night time and myself and my husband are physically exhausted. He asks to go to bed and by the time we get him to bed he doesn’t remember asking to go to bed. He has become obsessed with things needing to be sorted out that don’t need to be sorted out. He needs assistance from us to walk to the toilet and when he gets there he doesn’t know why he is there so we have to explain it again and again to him, when he finally realises why he is there he then says he doesn’t know how his body works in order to go to the toilet. It’s taking over an hour just to get him to go to the toilet.
It’s an endless 24 hour battle and we don’t know where to go to for help.