I'm fairly new to this caring business......we've recently lost my grandad who as a typical stubborn male...his favourite words were everything's fine we don't need no help, wouldn't let any of us help.
Having been such a sudden death...we didn't get chance to ask him many questions about how he looked and coped with gran and also because in the few hours we were there visiting we didnt realise the full extent of how bad my gran was. She's had this awful disease for 7 years.....and bless my grandad he had it tough all the more realising now as we didn't have it 24/7 he did.
Someone stays with my gran every night and allday....we find she gets alot worse come teatime/nighttime...I've read quite abit about the sundown theory and wondered if anyone else experiences this? And how do you calm the person down? My gran gets really agitated and can sometimes be pretty nasty....not aggressive or anything...and she seems so obsessed with her dogs everything has to revolve around the dogs.
Thankyou sorry for the long post
Having been such a sudden death...we didn't get chance to ask him many questions about how he looked and coped with gran and also because in the few hours we were there visiting we didnt realise the full extent of how bad my gran was. She's had this awful disease for 7 years.....and bless my grandad he had it tough all the more realising now as we didn't have it 24/7 he did.
Someone stays with my gran every night and allday....we find she gets alot worse come teatime/nighttime...I've read quite abit about the sundown theory and wondered if anyone else experiences this? And how do you calm the person down? My gran gets really agitated and can sometimes be pretty nasty....not aggressive or anything...and she seems so obsessed with her dogs everything has to revolve around the dogs.
Thankyou sorry for the long post