Good Morning! Another update. . .
We seemed to have moved on from the hallucinations, thank goodness but have had to increase the carer visits to three a day and a shopping call once a week. Over lock down Mum became very reluctant to go into the village for her shopping, totally understandable in my view! She found the whole situation with masks and directional arrows etc overwhelming even though she was accompanied by her Carer, so the Carer goes alone now. The Carer reheats Mum's lunch for her every day, so we're hoping this will help with her weight gain.
More recently Mum has become more depressed, she refuses to get up in the mornings and can quite often still be in her night clothes at lunchtime. The slightest upset will see her go back to bed, where she'll stay for the afternoon, fortunately this doesn't affect her sleeping at night. Unplanned visitors have found her like this, and this has upset them and led to concerned phone calls to me asking after her well being. The CPN has visited and we are waiting on his advice. He has recently increased her Donepezil to 10mg, but I think we'll need to wait to see if it has a good effect. No nasty side effects though, which is good.
Let's hope we hear from the CPN by the weekend.