Hi,
My fiancee's mum is 54 and was diagnosed with Alzheimers last year, she is rapidly getting worse and his father is finding it very hard as all of us are too. His dad retired early in december to become her full time carer and watching his wife day by day get worse is killing him. As this is new to all of us i wanted to see what type of support there is for us as family to cope with this. His mum is at the stage where things are very confusing for her and she seems to be in her own world a lot of the time and is starting to lie a lot and behave very child like, its heart breaking to see and believe this is happening. I know my fiancee finds it so hard as he says his mum has gone and its hard for him to see her like this. I have read a lot of forum chats and its amazing to see how many people there are out there going through the same thing so if anyone has any advice that would be great to hear.
Thanks.
Laura
My fiancee's mum is 54 and was diagnosed with Alzheimers last year, she is rapidly getting worse and his father is finding it very hard as all of us are too. His dad retired early in december to become her full time carer and watching his wife day by day get worse is killing him. As this is new to all of us i wanted to see what type of support there is for us as family to cope with this. His mum is at the stage where things are very confusing for her and she seems to be in her own world a lot of the time and is starting to lie a lot and behave very child like, its heart breaking to see and believe this is happening. I know my fiancee finds it so hard as he says his mum has gone and its hard for him to see her like this. I have read a lot of forum chats and its amazing to see how many people there are out there going through the same thing so if anyone has any advice that would be great to hear.
Thanks.
Laura