Dementia

Pollycat

Feral_Moon wrote: »

How do you live with Dementia?

I understand that you've had a diagnosis.

Get your family on-side.

Do your research:
https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents.php?categoryID=200120&gclid=CMbs-MCtmMwCFW8o0wod_iADNQ

Fight for any medication that will help.

Pollycat

soolin wrote: »

I agree, my darling Dad had vascular dementia and I literally lost 'him' overnight. After a terrifying phone conversation with him I rushed to his house and 24 hours later he was in a secure mental hospital and he never ever returned back home and spent his final few years safe and sound in a dedicated and secure dementia home. His was a sudden and acute progression and we spent over 4 years with him mostly believing I was his mother. At one point when the GP came out to see him in his nursing home he told the GP that he had no idea who I was but that he 'knew that he loved me'- and that statement even now makes me upset.

In some ways we were lucky in that dad rarely became lucid so he never knew what had happened . Also he never ever became violent, where as many of the residents in the home who had Alzheimer's displayed anger would quite often lash out.

Rotten filthy disease .

My Dad went downhill pretty quickly.

From being OK at Christmas, by Easter he didn't know my OH (we'd been together almost 30 years by then).
Luckily he remembered Mum, his daughters and grandchildren right to the end (which was less than 6 months after diagnosis).

He too was the same gentle man that he'd been throughout his life.