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Elderly parents

What support should hospitals provide for patients with dementia without family present?
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Coping when doctors keep saying an elderly parent is near the end
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Accused of abuse or neglect
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Is a lockable fridge pot mean?
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Mother taking wrong medication
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Suicidal ideation
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WWYD? Worried my elderly grandad may no longer be safe to drive
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TV, how are you managing it?
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Are my concerns about my mother-in-law's respite care reasonable?
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Struggling with difficult feelings about my father now he has dementia
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DM wants the impossible
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Brain tumour. Is mum close to the end what happens with her care now?
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Can council funded Alzheimer’s care be arranged nearer to family?
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Elderly mother with possible dementia
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Too young for a care home?
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Advice on care options for mother with Parkinson's (poss dementia) returning to the UK
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Possible Financial Abuse: Elderly Mother
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How can we help elderly parents facing suspected financial abuse?
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LPA and using access codes
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Managing Medication (or not as the case may be!)
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How long did the stairlift get used?
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reclining garden chair or weather proof bed for elderly dad
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Registering an LPA with NatWest for a housebound elderly parent
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Life expectancy - Mixed dementia and Parkinson’s
3
Care Homes & Money
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Rapid mental decline in elderly father-in-law abroad, dementia or delirium?
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Dad being taken advantage of
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POC coming to an end- hard sell?
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Any experiences of Delirium ?
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Experiences of elderly parents going into respite care for the first time
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Just out of interest, what are your elderly parents care home fees?
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How to attach fall alarm to belt.
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Mum hates new care home
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How do I go home after this?
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No PoA for 93 yo mum
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DNR - is this kind of pressure normal? It makes me very uncomfortable.
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Your guidance please keeping mum and dad together
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What are the next steps when elderly parents don't listen to a word you say?
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Advice please! Moving an elderly parent..
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Moving a 90-year-old parent to a care home in another area. Any experiences?
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How to help elderly neighbour
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Anti depressants- sertraline - in elderly
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Can you help navigate this end of life up and downness?
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Has dealing with elderly parents made you plan for old age?
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How can I persuade my dad to eat ?
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Long distance transport of elderly parents
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Dementia Care complex needs life long learning disability
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Guardian article today that might resonate here
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Mums cancer - it’s all about Dad
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Should I reduce work to support my elderly parents more?
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