Ultimate Indignity - help please

[Witzend]

I think we need to explore whether it`s the `Ultimate Indignity ` for the person with dementia or from the perspective of the carer.

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I have to say that when it came to my mother's incontinence, I did think it was a dreadful indignity, for her. This was because she had always been a shy and intensely private person pre dementia, and I knew how her former self would been aghast and utterly mortified. The fact that she was no longer aware didn't enter into it. I could not separate the person she had been, from what she had become.

 

[ElizabethAnn]

Hello Gerita, you also asked about the stages of Alzheimer's...

I think it's commonly agreed that all Alzheimer suffers are different, but a broad guide to the early, mid and late stages is given at the link below on the alz.org web site:

http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_stages_of_alzheimers.asp

rgds, Elizabeth