Has anyone else had a situation where it feels like your whole family is falling apart as a result of caring for someone with alzeimers?
For the last few years my family has been taking care of my dad at home. He is incontinent, can hardly walk, cannot wash and dress himself and can just aboyt feed himself with some assistance. This is in addition to all the emotional behavior changes such as not sleeping at night, hallucinating, being agitated, not speaking clearly, asking the same thing over and over etc etc
He is a wonderful man and we all love him dearly. But in the last few months it feels like the fall out on the rest of us has meant we have imploded. My mum has fractured her back from lifting my dad, my brother has also developed a bad back problem, i recently had a bad bout of shingles.
It feels like we are falling apart! In the meantime dad, probably as a result of the things that have happened to us, has taken a serious turn for the worse and i am just not sure how much more we can all cope with.
We are struggling....
It feels like we are all falling apart! Dad
For the last few years my family has been taking care of my dad at home. He is incontinent, can hardly walk, cannot wash and dress himself and can just aboyt feed himself with some assistance. This is in addition to all the emotional behavior changes such as not sleeping at night, hallucinating, being agitated, not speaking clearly, asking the same thing over and over etc etc
He is a wonderful man and we all love him dearly. But in the last few months it feels like the fall out on the rest of us has meant we have imploded. My mum has fractured her back from lifting my dad, my brother has also developed a bad back problem, i recently had a bad bout of shingles.
It feels like we are falling apart! In the meantime dad, probably as a result of the things that have happened to us, has taken a serious turn for the worse and i am just not sure how much more we can all cope with.
We are struggling....
It feels like we are all falling apart! Dad