My mother has had vascular dementia for over 7 years and having just been through a very content period is now beginning to get days when she is obviously fed up and nobody can do anything right - sometimes this lasts all day, sometimes just a few hours. At other times she is very smiley. I presume this is the mood swings that I have heard of that tend to effect people with dementia. I asked her GP if there were any pills she could have to help - having thought that there were, and he just suggested taking anti depressants for 3 months. I don't really think they would help the problem. I'm sure lots of you out there must have had these problems and would be really grateful for advice. She has been taking resperidone for the last 5 years.
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