Some TP'ers will have seen my posts concerning FIL with Altzhimers now it's my Mother I need help with. Mum has always had a bad memory but over the past few months I have been increasingly concerned about her on three occasions now telling me her flat is wrong. She knows it's her flat but it's in the wrong place. I was away last week and she phoned every day saying she couldn't stay there any longer and she has to sleep on the sofa because she can't go into her bedroom because it's wrong.
Mum has many medical problems and is unable to walk more than a few yards unaided so is largely house bound. She has carers four times a day plus someone to do her laundry and shopping. I'm over an hour away but visit most weeks and I have a brother about 30 minutes away. ( I'm the eldest of seven but that's another story). My brother visits at least once a week.
I don't know what to do mum can be very manipulative so I don't know if she is exaggerating things to get attention or if she has dementia I am taking her to the doctor on Wednesday and will be ringing her local adult social care office tomorrow. I have been ill myself with the strain of caring for FIL I have been very depressed like many hear but now he is in a home I was just beginning to breath again. I can't do it all again.
Mum has many medical problems and is unable to walk more than a few yards unaided so is largely house bound. She has carers four times a day plus someone to do her laundry and shopping. I'm over an hour away but visit most weeks and I have a brother about 30 minutes away. ( I'm the eldest of seven but that's another story). My brother visits at least once a week.
I don't know what to do mum can be very manipulative so I don't know if she is exaggerating things to get attention or if she has dementia I am taking her to the doctor on Wednesday and will be ringing her local adult social care office tomorrow. I have been ill myself with the strain of caring for FIL I have been very depressed like many hear but now he is in a home I was just beginning to breath again. I can't do it all again.