Hi all,
my fil is in his mid 80s & over the past 18 months has changed so much. He repeats things about 3/4 times in 10 minutes,even when we tell him he's already told us before, he wanders from room to room not remembering what he was going to do. He has taken to bleaching everything in the kitchen, telling us how he's been talking to old friends who we know have died several years ago. Also getting very irritable & shouting at his wife, who i might add is not a well person herself. We have asked him to go doctors which he did & he ageed to go for a memory test, but when the appointment came he rang & cancelled it saying there was nothing wrong with his memory. The doctor says there is nothing she can do until he admits there is something wrong, but I'm so worried about the stress that this is putting my mother -in-law under & I'm very concerned about both of them . Any advice would be most welcome, thank you
my fil is in his mid 80s & over the past 18 months has changed so much. He repeats things about 3/4 times in 10 minutes,even when we tell him he's already told us before, he wanders from room to room not remembering what he was going to do. He has taken to bleaching everything in the kitchen, telling us how he's been talking to old friends who we know have died several years ago. Also getting very irritable & shouting at his wife, who i might add is not a well person herself. We have asked him to go doctors which he did & he ageed to go for a memory test, but when the appointment came he rang & cancelled it saying there was nothing wrong with his memory. The doctor says there is nothing she can do until he admits there is something wrong, but I'm so worried about the stress that this is putting my mother -in-law under & I'm very concerned about both of them . Any advice would be most welcome, thank you