Can you apply for a blue badge for Alzheimer's

[aquarius36]

Exactly what the title is asking really.
My mum & myself are the ones that take my nan to all of her hospital appointments & are the ones that take her out & about food shopping etc.

My mum has POA for my nan & think she gets AA (attendance allowance) which my mum uses to pay for carers to go in morning & night.

My nan was only diagnosed with Alzheimer's just over a year ago & is declining very very fast, to the point where you cannot even have a proper conversation with her now as she has basically lost the ability to string a sentence together.
Even the mental health / Alzheimer's team that we have meetings with have said she is a very unusual complex case, as they don't normally lose their speech as quickly as my nan has.

We all believe things are starting to get abit dangerous with her & they've said that we just need to wait for a crisis to happen as she will not leave her house to go into a home. It's all very very sad as she is deteriorating at such a rapid rate.

Does anybody know if my mum would be able to apply for a disabled badge for her?

Definitely worth a try. There are questions about mobility and so on.

Yes you can. My mum applied for one for my Dad who has increasingly poor memory and has also started to shuffle rather than walk.

It makes things like GP or hospital visits much easier as mum doesn't have to worry about finding a space.

www.alzheimers.org.uk/blog/how-apply-blue-badge-person-dementia

It is hard when you have to spell out what they can't do but that's what you need to do on the form. You can't use a hospital drop off zone and say "wait at the door" so if they can't walk from the outer reaches of the car park you need a blue badge, a wheelchair or a third person. Mum had hers for her breathing rather than dementia but I was glad she had it once the number of hospital admissions started to pick up.

Think about whether she uses a frame or stick (or should use them but forgets), whether she stands upright or leans, whether she lifts her feet or shuffles. It all needs to go on the form, in every section it applies to, don't worry about repeating yourself.

Yes. We had one, the GP pushed for it

Totally you can. Think about what you need to do to get her out the car. You can't open a door and say get out. You need the wide spaces in order to get her safely out of the car for starters

My mum had one (her first symptom was losing her words for things - she had fronto temporal dementia rather than Alzheimers) and a major part of the claim for a badge was that she would just fling the door open into other cars and wave her crutches around so poor dad was either having to park a long way from things to get more room and then she couldn't walk that far, or close and constantly getting into problems with other people