Re: OTish: Alzheimers and finances

You're in a very difficult and scary place for any family, The point where
you know your relative is losing the ability to look after themselves, but
you can't persuade other people of that.

Exactly - my Dad has been to her Doctor and spoken to Social Servies, etc
and the bottom line seems to be unless she agrees to go voluntarily (and she
says she'd rather be shot) or injures herself, the only thing they can
order, is that she be taken to hospital - or failing that, as someone else
has mentioned, to get her sectioned and sent to a mental hospital.

The latter clearly isn't the right place for her, she just has Alzeimers and
needs to be supervised more than we can do for her. And of course it seems
ludicrous that our only option of getting proper care is if she were to
injure herself!

Have you spoken to Social Services and had an assessment for your Gran?
Has her GP referred her to a psychiatrist? Does she have a CPN? (Community
Psychiatric Nurse)

You need to get professional help and there are very useful and simple
things that can help if you know of them. You get smart systems with
alarms to make sure people take essential medication for instance.

Didn't know these bits and pieces - so thanks very much for that.

Despite the frustrations of her going back to her old bag etc try to keep
patient. It can be a very scary frightening place for people holding it
together. They cling to things they know that make them feel safe - like a
familiar bag.

Neb

True. Fortunately, I'm very patient and can see that her brain is like a
sponge that has absorbed all it ever can and so nothing new ever sinks in. I
think of her brain as a corrupted hard drive - there's lots of bits and
pieces floating about in it, but you can't save any new data in it or read
the data back out correctly.

Oh, and I haven't even mentioned since my first post, that she lost her
purse again the very next day. With even more money in it in addition to the
money she already had in it (she obviously forgot she had lots of money
already in it).

Fortunately and thankfully for the second day in a row, a very kind person
handed it in, in tact. We are all too aware that the next time she may not
be so lucky and so need to find the best solution as quickly as possible.

The poor lady was also flooded by the flat above as well on the same day.
It never rains eh?!


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