Dear All,
Oh dear... My father has been exhibiting some extremely odd behaviour patterns during the last few days and I'm becoming a bit concerned that his medication is not working as it should. I'm going to make an appointment for him tomorrow to see the Doctor, but just wanted to check if anyone else has noticed similar signs?
He is becoming ill tempered and accusing 'people' of stealing his clothes and his shaving kit and other personal things, which he has is now putting down in odd places. He keeps a torch by his bed and had moved this on to the hall table several days' ago. This morning he accused me of stealing it, although he's been walking past it several times a day and previously knew where it was.
He usually is extremely keen to do the washing up, but during the last few days has ignored doing it and complained about 'having' to do this and also feeling 'put upon'.
During mealtimes, he 'remembers' something that he 'has to do' and then shuffles off to the bedroom to turn out his chest of drawers, instead of finishing his meal.
He is also becoming extremely intolerant of my Mother's AD and keeps telling me that she needs to 'be put away'. He has now forgotten entirely that he also has AD and is blaming my Mother for his problems, as well as everone else in sight.
His short term memory seems to be MUCH worse during the past few days - he has no recall of events that happened only hours before. His short term memory has always been very good on a daily basis.
These problems that I mention are not on his usual list of dementia symtoms and, coupled with the very early 'sundowning' attacks are causing me quite a bit of anxiety, since it is also having a flow on effect to my Mother, who is tearing up toilet rolls and going to the loo every 5 minutes. We had almost stopped her from doing this sort of thing.
It's turned into a bit of a circus here during the afternoons. Does anyone have any advice.
Many thanks,
Jude
Oh dear... My father has been exhibiting some extremely odd behaviour patterns during the last few days and I'm becoming a bit concerned that his medication is not working as it should. I'm going to make an appointment for him tomorrow to see the Doctor, but just wanted to check if anyone else has noticed similar signs?
He is becoming ill tempered and accusing 'people' of stealing his clothes and his shaving kit and other personal things, which he has is now putting down in odd places. He keeps a torch by his bed and had moved this on to the hall table several days' ago. This morning he accused me of stealing it, although he's been walking past it several times a day and previously knew where it was.
He usually is extremely keen to do the washing up, but during the last few days has ignored doing it and complained about 'having' to do this and also feeling 'put upon'.
During mealtimes, he 'remembers' something that he 'has to do' and then shuffles off to the bedroom to turn out his chest of drawers, instead of finishing his meal.
He is also becoming extremely intolerant of my Mother's AD and keeps telling me that she needs to 'be put away'. He has now forgotten entirely that he also has AD and is blaming my Mother for his problems, as well as everone else in sight.
His short term memory seems to be MUCH worse during the past few days - he has no recall of events that happened only hours before. His short term memory has always been very good on a daily basis.
These problems that I mention are not on his usual list of dementia symtoms and, coupled with the very early 'sundowning' attacks are causing me quite a bit of anxiety, since it is also having a flow on effect to my Mother, who is tearing up toilet rolls and going to the loo every 5 minutes. We had almost stopped her from doing this sort of thing.
It's turned into a bit of a circus here during the afternoons. Does anyone have any advice.
Many thanks,
Jude