My Mother has had Dementia for 10 years she is now late stages, she is 70. I am her main carer and have moved in to live with her 10 months ago because she could not manage alone anymore. I have been managing my best (with the help of a carer I get 47 hours help a week)however the past few months my Mum's night meds had just stopped working and she is awake most nights screaming and shouting. The last few weeks with the lack of sleep have been unbearable and having a 4 month old also to look after I am struggling to say the least. 2 weeks ago Mum had a water infection and took i turn for the worse completley hallucinating, I thought the shouting and screaming and hallucinations may go after the infection cleared but she is just the same. I asked the Doctor to give me something strong to help her sleep at night and to calm her down but nothing seems to work - she is on Diazepan 10mg, Donepezil 10mg, Zopliclone 7.5, and now Lorezepan 0.5mg the week of the infection I had the out of hours doctor out every night but there was nothing they could do my predicament was if they took mum to hospital she would not have been cared for on the ward properly they could not look after her (the doctor agreed adn told me to try keep her home), after weeks of not sleeping I gave in last Friday and they had a bed available on the Old persons mental health ward (I was assured she would be assessed and her medication sorted out) however by the sunday I removed her from the Ward as all they done was just drug her up to calm her -she couldnt speak most of the time i visited and I witnessed the 1 member of staff 'snapping' at my Mother and 'snatching the curtain off her, my mums carer also witnessed tablets being shoved in my mums mouth whilst she was sedated. So even though I needed my mum to be in hospital to be assessed I just could not leave her there with what I saw. Now I am left in the situation that I am still struggling at home and things are getting worse by the day, she is now basically shouting all day long abd banging smashing things, refusing to take her meds, she wont allow me or the carer to wash or shower her and she is now messing herself and tonight she thought the chair was the toilet and walked it all through the house (so I have spent have the night bleaching everything), and the worse is the no sleep it is now 3.30am and another night of no sleep she is still shouting I have had to come up to bed now and leave her downstairs shouting (garanteed by the time she falls to sleep at maybe 6 or 7 am the baby will then wake up). I have found a home for respite with a bed available they are coming to assess my mum tomorrow and they said they could possibly take her friday (I hope so), im about to have a breakdown and just wondered how long this screaming and shouting will last? I just want her calm again and sleeping but nothing is working and i dont know what to to?