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Next Level: Servere cognitive impairment & hallucinations
Caregivers: Dementia | Last Active: May 4, 2023 | Replies (13)Comment receiving replies
She is on meds and it is time to make an adjustment. She can't sit still and she is driving me crazy with 2 year old like energy. I am losing the ability to reason with her or calm her down. She doesn't have a UTI she is losing her mind to dementia. Her meds have been keeping some of her symptoms at bay but over time more symptoms more meds. I am sitting here typing while she is frenetically cleaning the house which is just making bigger messes out of smaller ones. She is taking dirty laundry folding it and trying to put it in the tv. Oyvey. Any attempt to stop her and I get toddler belligerence. I really don't know what to do except ride out this latest storm. As she is banging around the house I just keep repeating to myself she can't hurt herself and she can't break anything that can't be replaced. What a nightmare. Oh well this too will pass.
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Hi Bill,
My wife is also very busy disorganizing the house. I have found a kind of solution in tuning into music videos on Youtube, playing on our television. She has a few that she likes, and she will sing along..sort of...more like make word-like noises that sort of sound like the song. This will hold her for a little while, then she wanders off, then back, etc. Without this distraction, or if something else is playing on TV, she just unstacks laundry, hides snacks in shoes, puts books inside other books, etc. Just random but very busy activity. The music thing has really helped, and I put speakers in our bedroom to play THE SAME music at night while she falls asleep. None of this has been a 'solution' whatever that means, but it has helped to break up her intensity. The most successful videos have been Coldplay full concerts and Elton John concerts. Absolutely nothing works here 100% of the time, but the averages have been good with this approach. Also...repetition of the same thing over and over seems to reinforce the good result. It has become familiar. Oh...AGT or BGT videos too.
Rob-