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Idiot's Guide to A Parent With Dementia please?

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PostBellumBugsy · 01/02/2013 13:44

So, as well as having been diagnosed with cancer my Dad seems to be rapidly dementing too. Apparently, the hormonal cancer treatment will accelerate a dementia process.

DD still lives with DM in an old (not posh) farm house in the middle of nowhere. They have both decided that they are not leaving it, unless they are carried out in boxes (great help, thanks DM&DD).

They are both late 70s. DM is finding it increasingly hard to cope with DD, as he is very forgetful (can't remember what day it is), bad tempered and rigid (gets very agitated if he doesn't eat at set times etc).

They are going to the Memory Clinic in a few weeks. What will that show? Is there any help they can get?

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twentyten · 01/02/2013 17:28

Oh I'm so sorry.Not an expert but Age Uk and the Alzeimers society are really good- Social services can do an assessment to look at allowances like attendance allowance etc.Macmillan may also be able to advise-there are resources out there but they take finding...Do you have power of attourney?Really important.
Good luck

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