Hello. First time I've been on here. My mother has moderate mixed dementia and is living in an assisted living care home, which also specialises in reminiscence.
She recently broke her hip and is back in her room after a stay in hospital. She has been much more confused since she came back.
Before she went into hospital my sister and I had just about got her use of the telephone sorted, with a loudspeaker phone taped to her table, and my sister on memory 1 and me on memory 2.
We live two and a half hours away from her and have been alternating going down once every three days to see her and trying to phone her the other days, but are wondering if this is just confusing her more? She has managed to answer the phone but she can't ring us easily at the moment.
Does anyone else have any experience of this?
Thanks in advance
She recently broke her hip and is back in her room after a stay in hospital. She has been much more confused since she came back.
Before she went into hospital my sister and I had just about got her use of the telephone sorted, with a loudspeaker phone taped to her table, and my sister on memory 1 and me on memory 2.
We live two and a half hours away from her and have been alternating going down once every three days to see her and trying to phone her the other days, but are wondering if this is just confusing her more? She has managed to answer the phone but she can't ring us easily at the moment.
Does anyone else have any experience of this?
Thanks in advance