Hi everyone,
I hope everybody is safe and well and coping as best as possible in this Second lock down.
i’m after some advice my dad is 67 and during the pandemic has been diagnosed with late onset Alzheimer’s it’s progressing very fast and he’s gone downhill very quickly.
He really likes his independence refuses to accept he is ill; we have to grind his tablets as otherwise he wouldn’t take any medication because he doesn’t believe he is sick, and gets angry and agitated if we mention it or if the doctors mention it.
He likes to walk the dog several times a day we have a GPS tracker so that we can make sure he is safe and know where he is. He normally goes for 20 minutes max and follow the same route.
For the last couple of days he’s been talking about the world ending; it’s been a current common theme that he says that he wants to move out house with another woman who doesn’t exist.
he hears voices and he is constantly in a delusion where these voices control what he eats, what he can do and we cannot reason with them if we do try to he gets agitated so we try not to.
This afternoon he took the dog for a walk but was going for a really long time went a lot further than he’s ever gone before. my brother took the car and went out to try and get him to come back but he got very agitated with my brother refused to come home. Short of grappling him my brother couldn’t convince him to get in the car or walk home with him.
He stood in a field for nearly 3 hours while we tried to convince him to come home and eventually it was getting so cold and we were so worried we called the police and the police managed to track him down with the GPS tracker and they brought him home.
We’ve had zero support since his diagnosis. He has never been seen face-to-face by a doctor or a nurse and all they can do is prescribe medication. Today the dementia team confirmed that there was no medication that was available to him that would help just promethazine to sedate him and to calm him down.
So we are stuck locking the door because he just wants to keep moving out and leave us and doesn’t want to be where we are. We hate sedating him and we feel awful about this, my mum and my brother and me are broken and we just wondered if anyone could offer us any advice as I’m sure many of you are in a similar position.
I hope everybody is safe and well and coping as best as possible in this Second lock down.
i’m after some advice my dad is 67 and during the pandemic has been diagnosed with late onset Alzheimer’s it’s progressing very fast and he’s gone downhill very quickly.
He really likes his independence refuses to accept he is ill; we have to grind his tablets as otherwise he wouldn’t take any medication because he doesn’t believe he is sick, and gets angry and agitated if we mention it or if the doctors mention it.
He likes to walk the dog several times a day we have a GPS tracker so that we can make sure he is safe and know where he is. He normally goes for 20 minutes max and follow the same route.
For the last couple of days he’s been talking about the world ending; it’s been a current common theme that he says that he wants to move out house with another woman who doesn’t exist.
he hears voices and he is constantly in a delusion where these voices control what he eats, what he can do and we cannot reason with them if we do try to he gets agitated so we try not to.
This afternoon he took the dog for a walk but was going for a really long time went a lot further than he’s ever gone before. my brother took the car and went out to try and get him to come back but he got very agitated with my brother refused to come home. Short of grappling him my brother couldn’t convince him to get in the car or walk home with him.
He stood in a field for nearly 3 hours while we tried to convince him to come home and eventually it was getting so cold and we were so worried we called the police and the police managed to track him down with the GPS tracker and they brought him home.
We’ve had zero support since his diagnosis. He has never been seen face-to-face by a doctor or a nurse and all they can do is prescribe medication. Today the dementia team confirmed that there was no medication that was available to him that would help just promethazine to sedate him and to calm him down.
So we are stuck locking the door because he just wants to keep moving out and leave us and doesn’t want to be where we are. We hate sedating him and we feel awful about this, my mum and my brother and me are broken and we just wondered if anyone could offer us any advice as I’m sure many of you are in a similar position.