She is a Christian sister and friend. She has dementia. She is 88 and very amazing. Still cleans her house, does her own laundry, works puzzle books like you wouldn't believe. Very active and loves going on outings. She amazes me because she can roll her hair perfectly with no mirror. Very healthy except for the dementia. Very strong, was a skater alot in younger years. But the Dr. Doesn't want her alone. She needs guidence at times. All this but I need a place she can go and enjoy and I can get away for a little while and someone to talk to besides her. Can anyone help?
As to the constipation, if she doesn't like prunes or prune juice, try raisin bran cereal every day. Mom used to occasionally have constipation issues and a bowl of raisin bran would do the trick every time. Once she went into the nursing home, she started having problems again, and they put her on Senna. I took her out for a day trip to her favorite destination, and the staff failed to tell me they had given her FOUR Senna tabs with her meds. Needless to say, we had a nice trip, but with some very unpleasant bathroom stops. I'm glad I brought extra clothing, baby wipes and extra depends. She had more than one blowout.
I told the staff to stop the Senna at my request, as her medical POA and to give her 2 small dishes of fruit with every meal, and raisin bran once per week. She never needed Senna again.
Finding a caregiver's support group can be difficult because a vast majority of caregivers cannot get away to attend a support group. I live in a very large metro area, and there wasn't one group close enough for me to drive for meetings. This forum became my "group", the information and suggestions have been excellent.