Your thoughts & advice please! My mum is 90 with AD. I'm wondering if it's worth having a chat with her GP re poss medication to help with increasingly worse hallucinations, & what now seems to be regular middle of the night/early hours episodes of terrible confusion, disorientation, screaming for help, panicking about urgently needing the toilet & not making it in time, the 'people' in her bedroom making sarcastic comments all the time, she doesn't know who she is or where she is...……… it goes on & on (? sundowning but during the night???? I don't know).
She lives close to us but I'm obviously not there in the night so don't hear her 'screaming for help', but she tells me every day that she had another awful night with 'the people', & desperation to get to the loo & screaming for help etc. Sometimes in the morning when I go round she's still in a terrible state or is just coming out if it. I settle her down quietly with a cuppa & breakfast & stay with her until the morning carer arrives. I tell her if she needs help & isn't 'with it' enough to phone me, she should press her Careline pendant or wrist buttons & they will call me. Mind you I don't want it to become a regular thing that I get hoiked out of a deep sleep every night to go round & sort her out!
If only she could get a proper night's sleep without having to get up several times to go to the loo! I'm concerned that if she gets put on medication, it will make her so drowsy she will have a fall if she gets up in the night. She has enough falls already. I can see we're heading for incontinence & going to the toilet has been an increasing issue (almost obsession) for a long time. Would she still be waking up & having these awful episodes anyway, even if she didn't need the loo? I'm not sure what to do as it's all definitely getting worse.
She lives close to us but I'm obviously not there in the night so don't hear her 'screaming for help', but she tells me every day that she had another awful night with 'the people', & desperation to get to the loo & screaming for help etc. Sometimes in the morning when I go round she's still in a terrible state or is just coming out if it. I settle her down quietly with a cuppa & breakfast & stay with her until the morning carer arrives. I tell her if she needs help & isn't 'with it' enough to phone me, she should press her Careline pendant or wrist buttons & they will call me. Mind you I don't want it to become a regular thing that I get hoiked out of a deep sleep every night to go round & sort her out!
If only she could get a proper night's sleep without having to get up several times to go to the loo! I'm concerned that if she gets put on medication, it will make her so drowsy she will have a fall if she gets up in the night. She has enough falls already. I can see we're heading for incontinence & going to the toilet has been an increasing issue (almost obsession) for a long time. Would she still be waking up & having these awful episodes anyway, even if she didn't need the loo? I'm not sure what to do as it's all definitely getting worse.