MIL is 88, with a diagnosis of mixed dementia and not much left in the way of capacity. She lives alone and has refused a care package, which her DC were OK with as she refuses to have anyone in the house. I think her DC are still struggling to process the diagnosis, which was very recent.
She has been on a cocktail of drugs, to be taken at three different times of the day, for years. She now has them in blister packs, but that doesn't work because she can't follow the instructions and she also can't get the tablets out of the packs because her hands are so arthritic. DH will speak to the pharmacist to see if there is anything else they can do.
We wondered if the answer might be to simplify the medication regime, but we saw her GP and he toed the party line and basically said she needed to take all of it, so there was no support there.
Some time ago, MIL actually stopped taking her meds for at least two months after the repeat prescription arrangement broke down and no-one knew. It didn't seem to affect her at all. Now, she's refusing to take them because she says they make her sick.
DH is tearing his hair out. He currently going twice a day to try to make her take them and she is resisting.
Has anyone else been through this?