My mother is 87, I know she has dementia. From hiding incontinence pads in drawers, believing that she takes rubbish out to the bin, believing that she cooks herself a meal to telling me that someone came to take her car away last week, when it actually went last September. There are lots more examples but the end shot is she had dementia.
It does not present itself when her carers come each day, when ever she speaks to anyone on the phone, when the doctor comes etc. Indeed she is a jolly nice lady to all these outside people.
To me she is argumentative, always trying to start an argument, accuses me of hating her and how she should jump off of a bridge because she is such a burden to me. I know it’s because I’m the closest to her, in fact I am the only one, but it’s getting to me big time.
I arrange carers, then she doesn’t like some of them. She had a heart attack in January and we have had a variety of carers who all think she is lovely. She got rid of carers a couple of months ago, then I had to put them back in place cause she was poorly, she has carers every day and last week I put one more carer in place for 2 days so that I can have some me time and free head space. She paid her off and sent her on her way yesterday. She flatly refuses to go into care so it’s all down to me. Help
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic
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