I need a bit of advice here please. Mum in law has lived with us 12 years with Alzheimers. She knows who we are, she has good hours and then just as quick bad hours (totally on board with the disease and I do know what to expect)
Problem is she has had, for several months now, sores on her body, back, bottom, upper legs, and arms. I have had the nurse out (cant seem to get near a GP !!) to her who prescribed Cetirizine (which doesn't help) I have had creams and lotions, I dress her lower arms (which is the worst as she can reach them) She pulls down the dressings and picks the sores and makes them bleed every day within and hour of me dressing them.
She is bored, so she picks !! I have tried distractions, books, photo albums, she destroys them almost immediately and then creates because someone has done this !!. (I get the backlash of everything and am so tired) She has one of them hand muffs with activities on it to distract her, I cant find it in her room.
I have Alexa in her room for music, she has a tv but wont watch it. She wont come out of her room. I am at my wits end, I simply do not know what to do next.
Any ideas ? Tia xxxx
Problem is she has had, for several months now, sores on her body, back, bottom, upper legs, and arms. I have had the nurse out (cant seem to get near a GP !!) to her who prescribed Cetirizine (which doesn't help) I have had creams and lotions, I dress her lower arms (which is the worst as she can reach them) She pulls down the dressings and picks the sores and makes them bleed every day within and hour of me dressing them.
She is bored, so she picks !! I have tried distractions, books, photo albums, she destroys them almost immediately and then creates because someone has done this !!. (I get the backlash of everything and am so tired) She has one of them hand muffs with activities on it to distract her, I cant find it in her room.
I have Alexa in her room for music, she has a tv but wont watch it. She wont come out of her room. I am at my wits end, I simply do not know what to do next.
Any ideas ? Tia xxxx