I’ve got a breast screening appointment for my mum this week. She has Alzheimer’s, lives in a care home, is mobile but slow but is really suffering mentally. She screams and shouts a lot. She also cries and is very confused. This is her second care hon due to being turfed out of the first for behaviour. I don’t think taking her for a mammogram is a good idea, I don’t mind the hassle of getting her there, it’s the practicalities of clamping mums boobs in a glass vice and telling her to be still. She doesn’t remember any instructions, pretty much has no memory and will not understand the pain and actually might lash out. The nurses at the hospital were very breezy about it on the phone saying they can handle people with dementia but I think they are imagining someone with early stage dementia who can take on some information. Plus if they do find something what will they do, give chemotherapy to a lady who doesn’t know what is happening from one minute to the next? I don’t think she should go but I think I will get a lot of judgment from the nurses and carers if I say this. What would you do?