My Mom is sleeping a lot and goes into such a deep sleep its like a mini coma. You can call her name, tap her, shake her (not roughly) and she does not wake up. Also she leans forward when she goes into this sleep and is now not swallowing her last mouthful of food or drink, therefore it all pours out of her mouth. She will suddenly wake up and look around, give us a smile and goes again. Very distressing to watch. Two carers are going to give her a spa bath tomorrow and give her a bit of a pamper. Just hope she stays awake to enjoy this.
Have you spoken to GP about this ? That would be my first port of call , since this isn't normal, unless the doctor confirms it is....
We had similar and after parent was checked for UTI, stroke, blood test etc, we concluded it may be medications. I saw that. A t op expert on a US alzheimers site said always consider meds as a cause.
So we have with agreement of GP stopped rispiridone. Then we are being careful over the dose of Trazadone which my parent has for sleeplessness. But also I asked CPN about using coffee. We tried it yesterday and it worked a treat. Obviously we are watching carefully.
Also we are keeping parent engaged since we think that they sleep when they find it difficult to join in the conversation so we increased the "one to one " interaction.