Hi,
My dad is 67 and was diagnosed with dementia & Alzheimer's this year. He is on 5 mg meds to help and this was increased to 10 but the dosage started to cause aggressive behaviour. He lives with my mum who is 73 and his primary carer and she started to become increasingly anxious not knowing how he was going to be day to day. The clinic agreed to reduce his meds to 5mg but this continued so he's now on 5mg every other day. He's been great for the last 3 weeks gets muddled still but none of this aggression so we thought we'd got the right dosage.
However last night his what has always been verbal aggression/abuse turned physical for no apparent reason with him chasing my mum around the house saying he would kill her and she couldn't escape. She ended up leaving and going to my sisters as we have advised her to take herself out if and situations where she may be in danger but we are at a loss now what to do next!!
If I take her home this morning and speak with my dad he will have no recollection and we know that it's not him behaving this way it's a symptom of the condition but I can't put my mum at risk.
Has anyone experienced this or got any advice on what to do next?
Yours desperately :-(
My dad is 67 and was diagnosed with dementia & Alzheimer's this year. He is on 5 mg meds to help and this was increased to 10 but the dosage started to cause aggressive behaviour. He lives with my mum who is 73 and his primary carer and she started to become increasingly anxious not knowing how he was going to be day to day. The clinic agreed to reduce his meds to 5mg but this continued so he's now on 5mg every other day. He's been great for the last 3 weeks gets muddled still but none of this aggression so we thought we'd got the right dosage.
However last night his what has always been verbal aggression/abuse turned physical for no apparent reason with him chasing my mum around the house saying he would kill her and she couldn't escape. She ended up leaving and going to my sisters as we have advised her to take herself out if and situations where she may be in danger but we are at a loss now what to do next!!
If I take her home this morning and speak with my dad he will have no recollection and we know that it's not him behaving this way it's a symptom of the condition but I can't put my mum at risk.
Has anyone experienced this or got any advice on what to do next?
Yours desperately :-(