Caregiver-Daughter
Caring for my mom Member since September 07, 2009My mother will be 95 in June. She has progressed from chain smoking early dementia in an assisted living facility to now a resident of a skilled nursing facility, having forgotten all about cigarettes, with more advanced dementia and confusion. She has progressively declined food, both solid and liquid, pureed or plain. She will often eat a cookie which I bring her every day. The nurses provide her with milk shakes and a liquid protein supplement but now she is almost always pushing away any food, even the cookies she cannot finish. I am reluctant to ask for intervention because I suspect that her body is beginning to prepare for the end. Any advice or suggestions? She is almost completely incontinent as well and otherwise is n good physical shape for her age. Legally blind she has no interest in tv or music. Her conversation is limited to yes or no responses.