Hello all
We are four years into our vascular dementia journey, mum lives alone. Mobilises on a zimmer , no issues with incontinence, mum can put herself to bed and get up and dressed.
All meals taken care of and LOTS of telephone prompting from me though.
Yes mum has had a chest infection (bronchiectasis with at least one antibiotic resistant bug present)
Mum has been on antibiotics for two weeks.
But she normally picks up by now.
So what’s new? Deeply sleeping in the morning, afternoon and evening and having an undisturbed sleep at night. Mum has even fallen fast asleep on a dining chair at the table knife and fork in hand.
I have seen bed bound folks, doubly incontinent who sleep all day with end stage dementia. As mum can do some things for herself she isn’t there at that stage. But the sleeping!!! What’s going on ?
Anyone gone through this ?
We are four years into our vascular dementia journey, mum lives alone. Mobilises on a zimmer , no issues with incontinence, mum can put herself to bed and get up and dressed.
All meals taken care of and LOTS of telephone prompting from me though.
Yes mum has had a chest infection (bronchiectasis with at least one antibiotic resistant bug present)
Mum has been on antibiotics for two weeks.
But she normally picks up by now.
So what’s new? Deeply sleeping in the morning, afternoon and evening and having an undisturbed sleep at night. Mum has even fallen fast asleep on a dining chair at the table knife and fork in hand.
I have seen bed bound folks, doubly incontinent who sleep all day with end stage dementia. As mum can do some things for herself she isn’t there at that stage. But the sleeping!!! What’s going on ?
Anyone gone through this ?