I'm travelling home (fairly long distance) this weekend to sit down with my sister and figure out how we can help our mum. We've suspected the onset of dementia for some time and it's getting markedly worse. My sister has taken her for assessments and the outcome is variable - she seems to 'perk up' when she's talking to professionals, but then day to day it's becoming more alarming just how much of her short term memory has gone entirely.
We're both feeling a bit lost - we've done lots of online research but I guess we're trying to find some sort of map through it all.
If any of you have been through this, do you have any advice that you wish you'd been given eat the beginning? Any sources of helpful resources we could look at to help us figure out what we need to make sure we put in place for her? TIA...