Is it worth getting an ADHD diagnosis for my FIL?
MIL is struggling to cope with him as he's been way worse since the lockdown and his behaviour is just escalating. His hyperactivity is such that he's off out every 10 mins. Visiting people who don't want to be visited. He's ordering random stuff on the internet and the house and garden are getting full of things they don't need, including food, and she's overwhelmed by it. He's painting furniture in the garden that doesn't want painting and he's only doing half of it so it looks awful.
And he won't listen to anything she says. He wants to buy two grass snakes for the garden and just gets really angry with her when she tries to stop him. She terrified he's going to come back from one of his trips out with them.
They are awaiting assessment from the Adult MH team and I'm assuming they will look at ADHD as they'll look at everything, but he was originally referred there because the GP suspected dementia (it's not that). He had delirium at Christmas as he had water retention which has been an ongoing problem for quite a while.
But I was wondering if they'd even medicate him at his age (70s) or just leave it and offer him CBT which wouldn't work.