Hello,
I have joined to see if anyone has advice or experience of the delusional aspect of vascular dementia. My parents in law have been married for almost 50 years, more or less happily I think. My mother-in-law has just been diagnosed with vascular dementia after a few months of mental deterioration. She has become convinced that he has another woman who sits in a car outside their house, waiting for him. She also thinks this woman follows them when they go out. They talk through the issue but she cannot remember the outcome and so they start to row all over again. Both of them are unhappy and it seems like they may split up.
I'd really like to know if this is a stage in her illness, and that it passes, in which case my father-in-law will probably manage to stick it through, with a lot of help from his family. But if this fixation, which she is absolutely convinced is true, sticks, then he will not be able to stand the constant accusation and recrimination for something she has invented, albeit due to her illness.
Many thanks,
ZOIDS
I have joined to see if anyone has advice or experience of the delusional aspect of vascular dementia. My parents in law have been married for almost 50 years, more or less happily I think. My mother-in-law has just been diagnosed with vascular dementia after a few months of mental deterioration. She has become convinced that he has another woman who sits in a car outside their house, waiting for him. She also thinks this woman follows them when they go out. They talk through the issue but she cannot remember the outcome and so they start to row all over again. Both of them are unhappy and it seems like they may split up.
I'd really like to know if this is a stage in her illness, and that it passes, in which case my father-in-law will probably manage to stick it through, with a lot of help from his family. But if this fixation, which she is absolutely convinced is true, sticks, then he will not be able to stand the constant accusation and recrimination for something she has invented, albeit due to her illness.
Many thanks,
ZOIDS