Mum has vascular dementia, short term memory is down to a few mins, so she may ask constantly if the cat is in for instance, or has the pets been fed etc. She has problems with her hand and her arm for about a year and fingers adn hands go bluey grey a lot. She also has a number of wee falls, although not too frequent.
I have noticed a change again in last few weeks, since a small fall she had and there is a greater vaguness etc. Carer does say she is having more problems with co-ordination etc.
She has a craving for chocolate and anything sweet and will almost do anything to get it, so christmas has been a bit dofficult trying to hide the sweet stuff.
However, over the last week or two, I notice that she has more and more problems with two things (1) heartburn during the night (2) incresaed problems when eating of food , as she puts it, going down the wrong way....so she is often choking a wee bit when this happens.
On looking into this , it appears to be a problem with late dementia ..so I am not too sure what is going on.
Any sugegstions os similar experiences
I have noticed a change again in last few weeks, since a small fall she had and there is a greater vaguness etc. Carer does say she is having more problems with co-ordination etc.
She has a craving for chocolate and anything sweet and will almost do anything to get it, so christmas has been a bit dofficult trying to hide the sweet stuff.
However, over the last week or two, I notice that she has more and more problems with two things (1) heartburn during the night (2) incresaed problems when eating of food , as she puts it, going down the wrong way....so she is often choking a wee bit when this happens.
On looking into this , it appears to be a problem with late dementia ..so I am not too sure what is going on.
Any sugegstions os similar experiences