Hello everyone,
New to this so not sure how much to put on - There are four siblings behind this username, we’re on here because our mum was diagnosed with Mixed Dementia last October. My mum lives with my sister and her four children, (one at uni, one at collage, 2 at primary school). You can imagine things get a little heated at times and although we all help as much as we can, its our sister that takes the brunt.
Our mum is 85 (86 next month) and seems to have lost all sense of time, smell, taste, memory and most tragically, self pride. This represents itself from waking up at 03:00 and waking everyone up or still awake at 01:00, constant eating (if we let her), not wanting to change her cloths, etc. She is on medication which thankfully controls her moods, prior to that, she could get very paranoid and aggressive. From what we understand about dementia, is that this is common, but still hard to see our mum in this state. Also she seems to have reverted back in time and regularly calls for her mum and her own siblings, again very sad to hear. I’ve asked if she’s in pain or in distress, she says no, just calling for them.
The big problem is her memory, this is most evident with food. She no sooner has finished eating (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and within minutes is asking for food and when we say she’s just eaten, she says she hasn’t.
If anyone has any advise on any of the points above, we would be very glad to hear from you
New to this so not sure how much to put on - There are four siblings behind this username, we’re on here because our mum was diagnosed with Mixed Dementia last October. My mum lives with my sister and her four children, (one at uni, one at collage, 2 at primary school). You can imagine things get a little heated at times and although we all help as much as we can, its our sister that takes the brunt.
Our mum is 85 (86 next month) and seems to have lost all sense of time, smell, taste, memory and most tragically, self pride. This represents itself from waking up at 03:00 and waking everyone up or still awake at 01:00, constant eating (if we let her), not wanting to change her cloths, etc. She is on medication which thankfully controls her moods, prior to that, she could get very paranoid and aggressive. From what we understand about dementia, is that this is common, but still hard to see our mum in this state. Also she seems to have reverted back in time and regularly calls for her mum and her own siblings, again very sad to hear. I’ve asked if she’s in pain or in distress, she says no, just calling for them.
The big problem is her memory, this is most evident with food. She no sooner has finished eating (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and within minutes is asking for food and when we say she’s just eaten, she says she hasn’t.
If anyone has any advise on any of the points above, we would be very glad to hear from you