Hello there everyone
I was just wondering and having a bit of a worry about the future. My dad has alzhiemers and is doing well, he is on medication and has hardly deteriorated in the last year so that is ace, we have help from social services and between us all we manage ok( JUST ABOUT) but i must say the future scares me, i so desperatltly want to look after my dad till the end but know from my job what a mamouth task that would be and i dont know if we will manage it.
I panic at times and feel so sad at the thought of him ever having to go into a home, part of me wishes he would have a heart atack or something and die before he gets to the latter stages of the disease as it is so cruel.
How have other people coped with the guilt when you just can not go on anymore as a carer.
It is something i dread
love to you all
Kathm
I was just wondering and having a bit of a worry about the future. My dad has alzhiemers and is doing well, he is on medication and has hardly deteriorated in the last year so that is ace, we have help from social services and between us all we manage ok( JUST ABOUT) but i must say the future scares me, i so desperatltly want to look after my dad till the end but know from my job what a mamouth task that would be and i dont know if we will manage it.
I panic at times and feel so sad at the thought of him ever having to go into a home, part of me wishes he would have a heart atack or something and die before he gets to the latter stages of the disease as it is so cruel.
How have other people coped with the guilt when you just can not go on anymore as a carer.
It is something i dread
love to you all
Kathm