I and my husband are living with my Mum who has dementia.
I have read the thing about trying to be kind not confrontational. I hate confronting things anyway, but I am finding it very very hard to do the 'distract' part of the coping mechanisms. When she's disagreeing, and contradictory or insisting that something isn't (or is) so, I sometimes find it so upsetting and overwhelming that I simply cannot THINK straight, and can't come up with anything to distract her with.
I won't say anymore - so much of this is so upsetting that I could write a whole book.
Like:
Keys
Pills
Doctors
Chickens
Fridge
Washing
Coffee mornings - nightmare time!
Shopping
Snow
Bins
Books
The House
Bank
My health
Loads and loads more.....
Yours
ScarletPimple!
I have read the thing about trying to be kind not confrontational. I hate confronting things anyway, but I am finding it very very hard to do the 'distract' part of the coping mechanisms. When she's disagreeing, and contradictory or insisting that something isn't (or is) so, I sometimes find it so upsetting and overwhelming that I simply cannot THINK straight, and can't come up with anything to distract her with.
I won't say anymore - so much of this is so upsetting that I could write a whole book.
Like:
Keys
Pills
Doctors
Chickens
Fridge
Washing
Coffee mornings - nightmare time!
Shopping
Snow
Bins
Books
The House
Bank
My health
Loads and loads more.....
Yours
ScarletPimple!