Hello. My dad is in the early stages of dementia and my mum is terminally ill with cancer. She is increasingly frail and vulnerable, but still having to provide round the clock care for my dad. I live fairly locally but I work full time, so I'm not able to be there as much as she needs me to be.
The doctor refuses to give my dad a formal diagnosis because he keeps passing the '2min' dementia test, despite the fact that he gets confused, angry, talks to people who aren't there, gets lost in his own house and can't care for himself.
What support is there for my mum? Without the dementia diagnosis there doesn't seem to be much available to her.
The doctor refuses to give my dad a formal diagnosis because he keeps passing the '2min' dementia test, despite the fact that he gets confused, angry, talks to people who aren't there, gets lost in his own house and can't care for himself.
What support is there for my mum? Without the dementia diagnosis there doesn't seem to be much available to her.