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Introductions: Are you caring for someone with dementia?
Caregivers: Dementia | Last Active: Aug 16 2:33pm | Replies (762)Comment receiving replies
Please join me in to this group. I am caring for my husband with early stages of dementia. He is constantly asking the same questions which can be nerve racking. He can still sit in a group and laugh and converse so many do not realize what is happening. He only drives in and around our area where he has lived since childhood. Never any distance. We play bridge and he amazes me how well he can play complicated hands. We exercise almost daily at a YMCA. He does do some yard work. He has started constantly itching his head, but I can see nothing. Wondering if a dematologist is needed to check.
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Donnajane
Hi, i’m in a similar situation but it’s my wife that has the dementia. She is constantly asking the same questions but I realize it’s not her fault and she’s not doing it to aggravate me. We also work out at the gym 5-6 days a week. Her neurologist says exercise is the only think that all MD’s agree works to help slow the progression. My MIL lived with us for 18 years before she passed from dementia/Alzheimer’s so I know what our future is like and it scares me. This is a great site to look for answers or suggestions on treatments, coping, etc. welcome
Thank you for sharing as one of the frustrations you named is becoming a growing one for me: what my husband can do in front of others is at odds with what he can do at home. Often, I find people negate my concerns since he appears fine. Not being validated is another silent, yet exhausting piece of walking through the disease.
My husband hasn’t been diagnosed with anything yet, but I can relate to others not seeing his memory issues. Sometimes they do, but sometimes they don’t. I know they don’t think we are lying, but it is frustrating that they don’t get it. Are there prescriptions that help slow the progression of dementia?
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It seems like everyone thinks I’m the one who is losing my mind! Most people have no idea how frustrating answering and clarifying the same question is, and yet, the same person can play bridge. I am my husbands caregiver and I get so frustrated, but then I finally remind myself to take the focus off him and drop the judgement. For me, I get tired and know that the likely hood of all this effort is what? So am training my brain to stay in the present: