My mum is 91, 92 later this year. She has been in a care home since 2019 as she fell, broke her hip and shoulder and has been unable to self care since, she also has arthritis in all her joints and her feet are fused in one position. She has not mobilised since her fall.
She has been increasingly forgetful, forgetting my birthday, wedding anniversary, my kids birthdays, has given up reading/ watching the news/ and is now very anxious that the carers are stealing from her. I ring her everyday and she says the same thing to me, when I visit she is ok for a while and then tells me the same stories and asks if I have seen the birds outside her window. She thinks Boris Johnson is PM and that the King is George 6th.
The care home and GP think she has " dementia in later life" and have a community nurse coming out to begin the diagnosis. I have power of attorney, she has not done her own finances since 2009, so there is no real change to the day to day.
I guess I am looking to see if anyone else has experienced this ? She used to be physically frail, I am used to this, but am finding it hard that her once razor sharp mind ( she is a scientist) is now fading too.