My 87 year old mum has early stages of dementia. Still very much 'with it' but her problem is in verbalising the words or numbers she intends to say. She says she can 'see' the number or word in her mind but cannot enunciate it and so jumps to the nearest word/number to it . So this could be a time reference/date reference/money sum, causing her endless frustration in correcting/recorrecting herself to get across what she is really trying to say.
Examples: 'Pizzas' becomes ' those round things', water bill can become anything between electric bill or gas bill. 50 can come out as 500 or 5000 etc. etc. And of course "thingy" has become common parlance in many sentences when she is referring to objects or certain people.
Of course I'm there to give prompts but am often way out in my guesstimations !
Is their any name or aid for this particular condition ? Do any other carers on here encounter this same problem ? Any suggestions for aids or remedies ?
Examples: 'Pizzas' becomes ' those round things', water bill can become anything between electric bill or gas bill. 50 can come out as 500 or 5000 etc. etc. And of course "thingy" has become common parlance in many sentences when she is referring to objects or certain people.
Of course I'm there to give prompts but am often way out in my guesstimations !
Is their any name or aid for this particular condition ? Do any other carers on here encounter this same problem ? Any suggestions for aids or remedies ?