Lewy Bodies Dementia - fast Decline

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I don't know if anyone can help, I'm flailing around in the dark with this. My lovely gentle Dad was diagnosed with DLB just over two weeks ago, the day before diagnosis I took him to get his hair cut them for a coffee sand he was still my Dad, cogent, able to follow a conversation laughing etc. Today he is in a locked psychiatric ward, with plastic cutlery because he is so violent. He has no idea who any of us are. This is breaking our hearts, is this usual? I can't bear to see him like this and feel absolutely powerless to help him

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I’m so sorry. I’m getting to the end of a long journey with my DF’s FT dementia. I don’t know about the decline with LB, but what I have learned is that infections can have a disastrous affect on dementia. Has he been checked for things like a UTI?

Sorry I've just come back to the thread. No infections, the doctors are mystified as to why he has gone downhill so fast. I'm going to have a meeting with them tomorrow to see where we go from here