General Chat

yes i agree, i found that some of the younger staff were not tolerant enough, and often couldnt understand why the residents hid things and accused them of stealing their pension books etc....it's all part of the illness...

sorry you guys am so tired

n ight god bless xx

nite, thinking bout turning in myself

Night Night Stella sleep well honey.xxxx
I'm not far behind you

Yep me too Thankyou so much for the chat tonight greatly appreciated.
Tricia x

Night Night everyone xx

your welcome

bambi x

morning everyone hows trix?

nudge

there is a thing called "sudden onset dementia "

an infection can give the same signs as dementia, dementia can sometimes be rapid

worked 10 years in dementia now doing NVQ level 4 Leadership and Management and hoping to specialise in dementia a lot of my knowledge person based

nice to meet someone else in the field, the brain facinates me thats why i love working with suffers of dementia

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ to mo...... hiya x

bricking myself at starting it but thought if i make it dementia based it would be more interesting L4 looks a lot at people like maslow etc so should be fun

sounds like attention seeking...my mother was like that ...

its possible meercat but do need to rule out everything, is there anything worrying her?

Hi everyone ,this brings back memories with Mum and her Dementia.LWD your mum sounds just the same as mine was to start .Eating was a a big worry as she said she had had a meal and she hadn't.She would live on chocky bickies.
Has your Mum been allocated Geriatric Psychiactric Nurse to assess her?It does sound as though you are near her .I was 6 hours away and had to rely on her friends and neighbours to keep checking on her.But eventually that becomes too much to ask.
It is such a hard thing to cope with ,but I have to say mum used to say and do the most outrageous things that we had to laugh. Lots of tears too as it becomes so clear that your mum now is not mum as you knew.
If you keep your thread going here at least you have lots of people to talk to.
I could write a book with all my Mums antics whilst having Dementia!!!!!

yes hopefully we'll keep thread going for support,

mo

hav you tried leaving finger food they work a treat

we have several clients who just keep eating one day i feeding someone and sat though half hour being verbally abused

When it was clear that mum wasn't eating properly ,we had Wiltshire Farm Foods delivered and,someone from SS came every lunchtime and micro waved her meal,and then made up a plate ao sandwiches for her tea.That worked for a while ,then mum refused to let them in!!