Hi All,
My dad has been at a care home for about six months and very recently has started to become very aggitated. He has been hitting out at residents and
carers so they are calling in the psychologist to reassess him and to put
him on some medication. I'm going to see him and the care home manager tomorrow to sort out the practicalities but hopefully they can deal with dad and we can resolve the issues as best we can. Nothing seems to have triggered this (well it's hard to tell with the level of communication hes has). Dad has also been an obsessive wanderer with alzheimers, but has now started to amost run around the home exhausting himself. He also has a angered pained expression on his face. Right now, I understand why he may need to be sedated, at least temporarily.
I've read the factsheet on agression
http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/Caring...entia/Unusual_behaviour/advice_aggressive.htm
but cannot work out the trigger....its more of a build up over the last week or two and now exploding.
Has anyone else come across such a sudden change of behaviour?
thanks
Charlie....
My dad has been at a care home for about six months and very recently has started to become very aggitated. He has been hitting out at residents and
carers so they are calling in the psychologist to reassess him and to put
him on some medication. I'm going to see him and the care home manager tomorrow to sort out the practicalities but hopefully they can deal with dad and we can resolve the issues as best we can. Nothing seems to have triggered this (well it's hard to tell with the level of communication hes has). Dad has also been an obsessive wanderer with alzheimers, but has now started to amost run around the home exhausting himself. He also has a angered pained expression on his face. Right now, I understand why he may need to be sedated, at least temporarily.
I've read the factsheet on agression
http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/Caring...entia/Unusual_behaviour/advice_aggressive.htm
but cannot work out the trigger....its more of a build up over the last week or two and now exploding.
Has anyone else come across such a sudden change of behaviour?
thanks
Charlie....
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