Alzheimer's Disease Support Group

My poor father was originally diagnosed with alzheimer's about 4 years ago. He was finally put on Nemenda and Razadyne which seemed to help some but not much. About 7 mths ago my father suddenly did not recognize my mother. We took him to the doctors and they did a MRI but did not see any difference from one done a year ago so they attributed this sudden decline to alzheimers. He continued to decline and began hallucinating and becoming paranoid and agitated at times. They then put him on a low dose of seroquel which did not help sx at all. They increased the dose of seroquel and two weeks later he hit my mom thinking that she was an intruder. He ended up in the hospital where they changed his medications and made him worse, he has stage III kidney disease. He ended up in a nursing home off of the seroquel but on depakote and trazadone and haldol. My mom then took him back to md who put him on seroquel in the first place and she put him back on it. His behavior started escalating again and he became more and more agitated and violent. He is now back in the hospital and is almost non-responsive. THIS WAS A MAN WHO 2 MTHS AGO WAS PLAYING SENIOR SOFTBALL. This is a crime. It is so hard to see this happening to him and not be able to stop it. I want to demand that only one MD control his meds and make changes. Is that something that I can demand! Any other suggestions would be helpful and really appreciated.
Posted on 09/21/08, 05:09 pm