hi All
I joined the forum at the weekend as i want to be able to help my nan. She has been ill for the last few years, but was only properly diagnosed with dementia a couple of weeks ago. As we are struggling right now to care for her and her changing behaviour (me and my mum are her main carers) I decided that knowledge is power and finding out more could only make caring for her a little easier if we were able to understand what she is going through. So hence why I am here.
Reading everyone's posts I am beginning to get concerned. We have just been told that nan has dementia - no specific type of dementia. She has had assessments and a brain scan at the hospital which has led to the dementia diagnosis. Is it possible to just have this diagnosis or should I be pushing for a more specific diagnosis? The psychiatrist came back out to see her last week and just said that there is nothing that they can do to help her, and so without a specific diagnosis I wonder if this is really the case?
sorry if my question seems like an obvious one, but as I said earlier, I am new to this and desparate to understand and know that we are doing all that we can.
Thank you for reading x
I joined the forum at the weekend as i want to be able to help my nan. She has been ill for the last few years, but was only properly diagnosed with dementia a couple of weeks ago. As we are struggling right now to care for her and her changing behaviour (me and my mum are her main carers) I decided that knowledge is power and finding out more could only make caring for her a little easier if we were able to understand what she is going through. So hence why I am here.
Reading everyone's posts I am beginning to get concerned. We have just been told that nan has dementia - no specific type of dementia. She has had assessments and a brain scan at the hospital which has led to the dementia diagnosis. Is it possible to just have this diagnosis or should I be pushing for a more specific diagnosis? The psychiatrist came back out to see her last week and just said that there is nothing that they can do to help her, and so without a specific diagnosis I wonder if this is really the case?
sorry if my question seems like an obvious one, but as I said earlier, I am new to this and desparate to understand and know that we are doing all that we can.
Thank you for reading x