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Have you tried the old “you have to go to the doctor or they’ll cancel your insurance” ploy? She’d probably say that’s fine with her, though. We have a Visiting Physicians group who comes to our home. I believe they have offices all over the US. They can do blood tests and on Friday are coming to do a chest x-ray on my husband. Would that work?
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Those of us who are caregivers for loved ones with or without dementia all pop off occasionally when we’ve just had enough. There are days when I can’t say a kind word to my husband because I’m just tired and out of sorts. And, I remember once when my mother slapped her roommate in the nursing home and I went in and read her the riot act and told her to stop acting like a two year old.

However, the others are right and I think you’ve gotten the advice before that Mom really does need to be evaluated. It should have happened already. Call her doctor tomorrow and get her scheduled for a geriatric psychiatric evaluation. Then you can decide where she should go.
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I read your previous posts especially the cat one. It was voiced by replies that Mom is showing signs of Dementia and suggested you take her to a doctor. She could have a UTI. There are other things that cause delusions. Your Mom needs to be evaluated. She needs labs done to confirm if it dementia or not. She is not crazy. There is something wrong and u need to find out what. There are meds for delusions but you need to get her to a dr. that can prescribe them.
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LightingRod Aug 2018
I realize she's sick. I think at one point in the awful confrontation, I said she was sick. Then later, said crazy to try to get her attention. SHE WILL NOT GO to a doctor. She hasn't been to one in many years, and does not even have one here in AZ. All she ever allowed her doctor in CO to do was take her blood pressure and a blood test. Nothing else, no way, nada. There's not a way we could physically get her out of her apartment without being charged with elder abuse.
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Has she been evaluated by a gerentologist for dementia? She's sick, not crazy.
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