Hello, thanks for reading this.
My nan was recently diagnosed with mild, mixed dementia. Part vascular and part Alzheimer’s.
I want to know or try get advice from someone in similar situations. She is refusing and even saying she doesn’t have dementia, but she has and needs to go in one. Keeping saying also we are throwing her out and dont want her. This isnt the case at all! My mum is not coping with her at all and has mental health battles of her own. The weight of it all is making her suicidal to put it bluntly. Its the final straw for me since she attempted this morning. Mum is not getting much help at the moment aside from occasional respite, and since nan is refusing to go residential she feels stuck.
My main question here is can a doctor or social worker override nan and put her in a home anyway? Or can mum herself do it, she has power of attorney? Or is it up to nan to change her mind and go willingly. Its in my nan’s best interest too, not just my mum’s.
Im sorry if this all sounds so cruel! Im at breaking point myself and have no idea what to do or say.
Thankyou
My nan was recently diagnosed with mild, mixed dementia. Part vascular and part Alzheimer’s.
I want to know or try get advice from someone in similar situations. She is refusing and even saying she doesn’t have dementia, but she has and needs to go in one. Keeping saying also we are throwing her out and dont want her. This isnt the case at all! My mum is not coping with her at all and has mental health battles of her own. The weight of it all is making her suicidal to put it bluntly. Its the final straw for me since she attempted this morning. Mum is not getting much help at the moment aside from occasional respite, and since nan is refusing to go residential she feels stuck.
My main question here is can a doctor or social worker override nan and put her in a home anyway? Or can mum herself do it, she has power of attorney? Or is it up to nan to change her mind and go willingly. Its in my nan’s best interest too, not just my mum’s.
Im sorry if this all sounds so cruel! Im at breaking point myself and have no idea what to do or say.
Thankyou