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Elderly parents

Idiot's Guide to A Parent With Dementia please?

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PostBellumBugsy · 01/02/2013 13:44

So, as well as having been diagnosed with cancer my Dad seems to be rapidly dementing too. Apparently, the hormonal cancer treatment will accelerate a dementia process.

DD still lives with DM in an old (not posh) farm house in the middle of nowhere. They have both decided that they are not leaving it, unless they are carried out in boxes (great help, thanks DM&DD).

They are both late 70s. DM is finding it increasingly hard to cope with DD, as he is very forgetful (can't remember what day it is), bad tempered and rigid (gets very agitated if he doesn't eat at set times etc).

They are going to the Memory Clinic in a few weeks. What will that show? Is there any help they can get?

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WynkenBlynkenandNod · 17/03/2013 19:09

I need to go and look at care homes. Mum got her diagnosis last Friday, I'm just going to get through Easter then look. Dreading it but would hate to be making a decision in the middle of a crisis.

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