My MIL went into a home in mid January after a fall at home and a hospital stay. She'd obviously been suffering dementia for a few months beforehand (getting lost, hiding money and forgetting, acccusing us of stealing things ect) and after a month or so in the home was diagnosed with Alzheimer's stage 5/6 in February.
She'll be 90 in Jan and until dementia was laways very physically healthy. But she seems to have aged so fast and gone downhill so fast in the last year. After a day out visiting family on Saturday, she's clearly incontinent, urine and faeces (she was inco pads but it was clearly total incontincence, not just urine leaks). She is mistaking her son for her father/husband and her walking and psoture are much worse.
The home is good but she complains that they won't let her out whenever she wants or give her any money. The latest thing is that they don't feed her (for days at a time she says) or that the food has cockroaches or worms in. So that's obviously visual hallucinations, as well as the delirium about stealing.
I don't know why I'm posting really, it just seems so fast. I think she's well and truly in stage 6 now, severe dementia. I find myself wondering how much longer she might have, the way it seems to be just speeding along. The diagnosis was Alzheimers' but the home have mentioned possible vascular dementia as well.
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