Hi everyone,
I have not posted for a while, been busy as working full time, trying to look after mum and keep her in her own home and also have a little granddaughter which I would like to spend more time with....................aaaaagh being pulled in all directions.
Anyway, I was just wondering if other people have come across this problem and how they cope with it. Mum keeps throwing things away. Her clothes, food from the cupboards and fridge, bread, etc. We think she has thrown money away in the past and we are now (on the advice of the CPN) keeping some money back from her when we get her pension etc. It is driving us absolutely mad. Every day we go round and the first thing we do is check her dustbin and you would be amazed at what she throws away.
I have already confiscated all her photographs apart from ones that are framed, as one day I went round and she had scattered them all over and torn most of them up saying they were not hers and when I tried to explain that they were pictures of her (once) treasured grandchildren, she said, " well they are no good to me now are they what do I need to keep them for?". She has recently had a birthday and whilst we struggle as to what to buy her, she had been given some really nice clothes and a dressing gown and slippers etc. We had a little tea party for her and she seemed to enjoy it very much. The very next day all the clothes she had been bought were in the bin and she said they weren't hers and that we must have got them from a second hand shop and she wasn't having them from there!
What do we do! sod em and leave em in the bin, or keep washing them and putting them back. Hide or take away everything she could dispose of which would leave her with very little at home. She has already got rid of books,videos, ornaments, jewellery (not valuable stuff in a monetary way but mostly sentimental stuff) She has lost /thrown out her engagement ring which absolutely breaks my heart as she always loved the rings that dad had given her.
Mum is due to start on Aricept very soon having had a visit from the Geriatric Psychiatrist last week but I am worried as I don't like the place she is at right now, and if Aricept halts things, does this mean that she will stay this way for a long long time. I don't want her to get worse, but just wish she could have started the Aricept a lot sooner before she got to the stage she is at now (which they determine as Moderate.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Sorry to have gone on so long.
Maggie xx
I have not posted for a while, been busy as working full time, trying to look after mum and keep her in her own home and also have a little granddaughter which I would like to spend more time with....................aaaaagh being pulled in all directions.
Anyway, I was just wondering if other people have come across this problem and how they cope with it. Mum keeps throwing things away. Her clothes, food from the cupboards and fridge, bread, etc. We think she has thrown money away in the past and we are now (on the advice of the CPN) keeping some money back from her when we get her pension etc. It is driving us absolutely mad. Every day we go round and the first thing we do is check her dustbin and you would be amazed at what she throws away.
I have already confiscated all her photographs apart from ones that are framed, as one day I went round and she had scattered them all over and torn most of them up saying they were not hers and when I tried to explain that they were pictures of her (once) treasured grandchildren, she said, " well they are no good to me now are they what do I need to keep them for?". She has recently had a birthday and whilst we struggle as to what to buy her, she had been given some really nice clothes and a dressing gown and slippers etc. We had a little tea party for her and she seemed to enjoy it very much. The very next day all the clothes she had been bought were in the bin and she said they weren't hers and that we must have got them from a second hand shop and she wasn't having them from there!
What do we do! sod em and leave em in the bin, or keep washing them and putting them back. Hide or take away everything she could dispose of which would leave her with very little at home. She has already got rid of books,videos, ornaments, jewellery (not valuable stuff in a monetary way but mostly sentimental stuff) She has lost /thrown out her engagement ring which absolutely breaks my heart as she always loved the rings that dad had given her.
Mum is due to start on Aricept very soon having had a visit from the Geriatric Psychiatrist last week but I am worried as I don't like the place she is at right now, and if Aricept halts things, does this mean that she will stay this way for a long long time. I don't want her to get worse, but just wish she could have started the Aricept a lot sooner before she got to the stage she is at now (which they determine as Moderate.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Sorry to have gone on so long.
Maggie xx