Would appreciate sharing anyone else's similar experience please.
For the last weeks at home my wife, Dee ate very little but her intake of very sweet things kept her going somehow.
Dee is now in a Nursing Home and seems settled and accepting the change. She smiles and recognises my face every day when I visit.
Now she is eating so little that she is weak and losing weight. The NH is involving a doctor and a nutritionist. Nutritious drinks and personal one to one coaxing at mealtimes using a toddler's spoon seem the only way forward.
I have watched her decline day by day and believe Dee has decided she has had enough.
I believe that nasal feeding - or worse - is not practiced on people with dementia these days.
If it is and my consent was asked, I feel that I should not allow it as I believe this is what Dee would want.
There seems no end to the cruelty of this disease.
For the last weeks at home my wife, Dee ate very little but her intake of very sweet things kept her going somehow.
Dee is now in a Nursing Home and seems settled and accepting the change. She smiles and recognises my face every day when I visit.
Now she is eating so little that she is weak and losing weight. The NH is involving a doctor and a nutritionist. Nutritious drinks and personal one to one coaxing at mealtimes using a toddler's spoon seem the only way forward.
I have watched her decline day by day and believe Dee has decided she has had enough.
I believe that nasal feeding - or worse - is not practiced on people with dementia these days.
If it is and my consent was asked, I feel that I should not allow it as I believe this is what Dee would want.
There seems no end to the cruelty of this disease.