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To begin with, bless you for trying your best to care for your father. What is happening is not unusual; your husband feels a bit neglected. Can you take your father to a...
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According to the Alzheimer’s Association stage 4 is the following:
Moderate cognitive decline
(Mild or early-stage Alzheimer's disease)
At this point, a careful medical in...
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Dementia symptoms are as individual as each person who has the disease. For instance, a person with dementia usually can walk until they reach the moderate stage of the di...
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Dementia is a group of symptoms that include short term memory loss, changes in personality, and problems with word finding, poor judgment and problem solving. Dementia is...
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Your mother needs to be in a facility that has a good activity program designed for people with dementia as they rarely if ever self initiate activities. The facility must ...
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One of the "symptoms" of Alzheimer's disease (I prefer not to use a negative term like difficult) is incontinence. She is not going to remember you telling her to change w...
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Research is not well done and leaves more questions than answers. I don't think it is harmful but probably not beneficial either. Wouldn't it be lovely to have such an ea...
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The progression of Alzheimer’s disease is as individual as the person who has it. I usually talk about the progression of dementia in three stages. During the first stage...
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If you can get your mother on a sleeping schedule, life will be easier for her and you. Routine (ritual) is very important to most people who have dementia as it is comfor...
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Dementia is a strange disease and what you described is not unusual. I think that having his license revoked was a pretty dramatic event. It's is usually more difficult f...
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Age is the greatest risk factor for developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD). At the current time, 1 in 8 over 65 has this disease. The most frightening fact is that as our li...
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When a person with Alzheimer's disease refuses to eat or drink and they are in the advanced stage of the disease when they also need all of their personal needs cared for b...
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Finding the bathroom when you have memory loss is not uncommon and as with many “interesting” situations that occur with people who have dementia, there is almost never one...
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This question had me puzzled so I asked my husband who is a physician to help with the answer. He responded
"It is hard to tell what it is. It could be tardive dyskinesia...
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Urination trouble with people who have dementia is not that unusual. Now to problem solve. If she happens to urinate in "inappropriate" places many times within a short p...
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I must say this "nighttime hoarding" is a new one for me. So,I will do what I tell every care giver to do with "problems"they encounter..keep trying different options. I ...
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Your mother is fortunate to have you as a daughter. You did not say if she had been diagnosed with a dementing illness and if she is on one of the medications to help slow...
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Telling your mother that she has a terminal illness will just cause her and you unhappy times. You are going to have to monitor her discomfort/pain. When she complains abo...
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When a person dies is sometimes not easy to determine until they are actively dying. Their is no way to predict exactly when someone will die. Your hospice nurse can usua...
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Interesting question and one I have not heard asked before. So pets and Alzheimer's disease (AD), they are usually are a good fit as people with AD usually love babies and ...
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There is no test for Alzheimer's disease unless the cause of their AD is caused by a "bad" gene and you know what the bad gene is. My best advice is to make sure...
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You and your mother are going to need a lot of patience with these problems. He has a dementing illness that is incurable and is effecting his brain. His short term memor...
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You did not say what stage of her disease she is in. If she is in the early or moderate stage, have her evaluated for depression. Often people don't eat when they are dep...
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It sounds as if you are all doing your best to manage a difficult situation. Your mother is not making rational decisions because of her disease not because of anything yo...
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Speech problems are not that unusual especially if he had had a "mini stroke"; that is also not unusual for people with AD. Do make an appointment with a speech pathologis...
