'housing for parents with Alzheimers & sleeping' posted by treiger @ {post.created_at.to_s(:post_time)}

treiger — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:14:04 -0000

Both my father & step mother have been diagnosed wit Alzheimers in the last couple of years. My father used to do all the cooking but does very little now. We have a friend that visits them weekdays from bout 9 am to 3 pm, we have lunches delivered and then I go there after work o make sure they get dinner & thier meds. On weekends I go there in the morning to make sure Dad gets up & then again at dinner for supper & meds.

My father is an insulin dependant diabetic (twice daily injections) but refuses to be on a regular schedule. He likes to stay up until 4 am & then doesn't want to get out of bed until 2 or 3 in the afternoon which doesn't work with his insulin. I have discusssed with all of his doctors & they tell him he has to be on a schedue, he agrees & then goes home & does the same old thing. I get frustrated but I don't know if he just does this because he wants to or if it migh be an Alzheimers thing . . . ? We've discussed them moving into assisted living or something like that but he gets angry & says he's not leaving his home. I don't blme them for wanting to stay in their home but I'm torn - I don't know how much longer I can keep this up, I think they may benefit (due to Alzheimers) from a living situation where they would have more contact with others but I don't want them to go to someplace where they're not happy & just waiting to die. If anybody has any suggestions I would welcome them.

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