Alzheimer's Disease Support Group
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and characterized by progressive cognitive deterioration with declining activities of daily living and neuropsychiatric symptoms or behavioral changes. An early symptom is memory loss (amnesia), usually manifesting as minor forgetfulness that becomes pronounced with illness progression, with relative...
Hello everyone My grandma is going down hill more and more we are trying to keep her at home with us as long as we can. But I don't know how much longer were going to be able to care for her. When she wakes up in the Morning she has to have her breakfast as soon as she gets up. After she eats she goes to the bathroom She always throws the toliet paper in the thrash can instead of the toliet we have told her several times to put the toliet paper in the toliet not the trash can But she still doing it. She also has a horrible habit t of not washing her hands after she goes to the bathroom. She digs her poop out with her hands its really nasty. we cannot get her to stop doing that as well She never puts on the clean clothes that we give her she always puts her dirty clothes on instead. Then she puts her clean clothes in the trash can thats in her bedroom. Shes also getting really mean and hateful.
might help keep her hands out of it. As far as the hand washing...
there is nothing you can do except stand at the sink and help her.
at a certain stage, they really cannot do anything themselves or be left by themselves....
My husband had to be showered and shampooed, totally, dried, creamed as his skin was dry, dressed, fed, given meds, toileted wiped etc...it does get to be total care at a certain point....
think carefully about what you all are and are not able to do...
hugs....
I know it is hard to deal with sometimes, but you do have to try to remember that this is her illness that is causing these behaviors.
She isn't doing them just to be mean. She has no idea that she is upsetting you all so much.
It does sound as though she need full-time attention now and if there is no one to do that at home, then maybe it is time to see about putting her in a home where she can have the help she needs.
I hope the Dr. will have some suggestions for you.
Good luck,
Carolyn
The person gets to be in life...with others, and with care...my husband was in a fabulous program the people were saints...he was much happier after he adjusted....and it was a huge help to me.....huge....
maybe start to do the research now and figure out if your grandma qualifies for Medicaid for the payment.....then you would be ready...
Because your grandmother is not a member of your immediate nuclear family, I believe, if she met certain guidelines, that she would qualify for Medicaid, which is a State program, with some funds from the Federal government and Medicaid DOES pay for (again, as far as know) day programs.....
The application process is often tedious and somewhat lengthy...which is one of the reasons I am suggesting immediate actions.....
Also, there is probably an Area Agency on Aging located in your state...a call to that Agency might be able to give you or someone in your family further information about possible funding for your grandma's care.....