Mom seems to be misunderstanding everything. It's hapened before but she came out of it..maybe not this time. Tells me things that are just not happening, bossy and rude to her caregiver (makes her cry), thinks I'm my sister (died 13 years ago). I think she's forgotten how the thermostate works and asked me recently on the phone if I was the "real" daughter. Doctor upped her nerve pill yesterday. What do you think this is? Please anyone, respond. Need advise soon.
Best to you on your caregiving-I know it can be difficult-but the rewards make it all worth it.
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My advise is to get her to a doctor that specialised in geriactiac care. Most general practinicers don't have the expertise needed. My next advice would be that if she needed to go into a home would be to check out the medicare website. You can check out the recent inspections and then visit and evaluate for yourself. My husband and I visited several facilities and had made a decision as far a where his mother would go when she couldn't go back to assisted living, after a setback and finding the website we are glad our decision was changed. Places can look great, seem perfect but you need to check out their rating -- Where we were planning on putting my mother in law had a horrible rating ( bed sores, medication errors etc )
We chose a facility with a great rating and have had her there for a year. Just be carefull in your choices. Good Luck and God Bless
the doctor with it. It grew so bad that the time we took her to the doctor--she was a Direct Admit into the hospital and from there to the Nursing Home. If DPOA SIL had only listened to my husband & me earlier, MIL would still be with us. She thinks she knows it all because she's got a Nursing Degree and we don't.
It irritates me sometimes.
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