my mother in law hallucinationed in her next to last stage. yes part of it. people in the house it gets worse beleive me. It was 2 years of pure mesery she hid it for a long time.she is now in a comma unable to get drink or take med her mouth open unable to close it and her eyes which are set.
Betty

I would talk with your doctor about that, there may be other things going on or meds she can take to relieve some of this.
Sadly no two AD patients are exactly alike so although she may be having many hallucinations it might be "normal" for her.
When my husband started having hallucinations and becoming very hyper his doctor put him on risperdal which is usualy used for manic/depression and schiophernia (sp) and that has really helped him settle down. Before that he was waking me up all night thinking weird things were going on.

I've been told that taking them out of their safe place and routine can cause them to become confused and can cause them to hallucinate...I took my mother on a weekend trip to see her grandson graduate from high school, while we were there she thought my brother was my father ( seeing they have been divorced for 50 years ) she wanted to know why he was in her house and who were the kids with him, she has no memory of being there and showing her pictures of her and my nephew hasn't helped, I think seeing they are going back in time that seeing someone or something triggers a memory and they are reliving it, and seeing we know nothing of it we think they are hallucinating.

It's amazing how similar hallucinations can be. My father, earlier in the process, used to always talk of kids running around the house. This hallucination was frequent and lasted for some time.

I don't know what causes it but I quit challenging him about them and found ways to calm him without challenging what he believed he was seeing.

I got to the point that I basically went along, as best I could, with his hallucinations. This usually kept him calm. I don't know if it is right to play along with someone with AZ but I thought it was worse to provoke him.

Generaly speaking I think it is best to either play along or stay as noncommital as you can with AD people when they are seeing and hearing things that aren't there for us. It is their reality after all and trying to force them into ours can only cause more confusion and angry.
I know years ago when I worked in nursing homes taking care of people with "senile dementia" a.k.a. alzheimers we were told to keep reorientating them to reality but I never saw any positive results from that and for most of them "REALITY" was not all that great a place to come back to anyway.

My mom has hallutiations also. I think part of it is their confusion. Good luck.

My mother is in between early and middle stages of AD. Her perception is her reality so I do believe she sees people who have passed on 45+ years ago. I simply go along with it, ask questions about the people who she has seen (i.e. what were they wearing, what did they look like, where were they in the room, were you scared, etc.) For now, it does comfort her. We take each day at a time. God bless.

I realize that I am replying to an older topic but hallucinations is a current topic for me. My mom is still in the early stages of being diagnosed - is it dementia?//alzheimer's? - what kind, etc...Anyway - she has a history of auditory and visual hallucinations. They were really frequent and quite involved/detailed for a long time. Now, they cycle in frequency and intensity which I think is due to an increase in her depression meds. She can go weeks with none at all although she consistently hears music and has for years- but only at night. She has also had a history of depression for years which certainly contributes to any dementia issues. She has been on Aricept for a month and I do see a benefit cognitively in her. - She has been less confused and is able to remember some things better. But many other issues remain untouched. To sum up her visual hallucinations now - they always involve animals ans unexplained sounds (knockings, growlings, footsteps). Sometimes they invovle people but never people that are familiar in names or faces.

Anyone else care to share their experiences?

My grandmother talks to the television-and she tells the people on there how awful I am, lol. We have been dealing with this for a while-we are end stage and on hospice now. I have found it easier for her and myself to just play along.

It is interesting how many folks hallucinate common images. When they were happening more often for my Mom (and they may still be - she refuses to tell me anymore) she would almpst always see children ( 4 little girls) and bizarre animals - always the same kind of animal but not a species I have ever seen! And it is amazing how detailed the hallucinations can be. The mind is an amazing thing!

well I take care of my grandmother being the oldest grandaughter.. there are times she will pick out photos on the wall then other times shell jus speak there name like there alive and well and tell me this or that.. for along time now every morning she says she has to leave here and go home she and i have lived together 5 yrs just us now she says she has to go home but dosent know were home is but she holds onto me dosent want me going anywere but she dosent want to live here and honestly i think if we moved her to were her sister lives she would not be happy there eather sometimes i dont think thats the home shes talking about.. she gets more confused now in the evnings and fussin in the mornings.. i try my best because i love her but i hate alzhimers and i hate demintia cause i have cared for people with both i took care of her best freind for 2 yrs before she passed right along with taking care of nanny but the best thing is now my famuilys eyes are open..

my mom also had hallucinations. she would always worry about the kids and if they ate or if she could keep them. if i told her she could feed her she would get up and try to cook for them. she woul put a pan on the stove and put stuff in the pan and leave it on the stove. and i woul put it away. and tell her that they had been fed.