Re: Alzheimers Disease

Jackie wrote:
My Sister in Law and Brother in Law live in Norwich and he has
Alzheimers, they are both in their 80's and she is finding it very
difficult to look after him and she does not sound to be getting very
much help, she is at her wits end , she cannot sleep and he is
getting quite aggressive Social Services say there is nowhere that
can take him. The only help she gets is once a day a helper comes to
wash him. Does anyone here know of anywhere she can get help, please.
Her Doctor does not sound very helpful either.

Hiya Jackie,
My sister has that awfull disease and i am fraid it wont be easy.
Mum and my sister live(d) in Cornwall and mum was trying to look after
sis who became doubly incontinent, with some aggression and i *think* it
was that plus mum was then 96 (she is now 98 ) that caused Social
Services to first of all give mum some respite and Sis went into care
for a week now and again until eventually she went in as a resident.
I am a bit like you in that there are many miles between them and me and
i have tried a lot of the suggestions i have seen in the posts answering
yours Age Concern, Social Services, Altzhiemers group and so on and
quite honestly none of them have helped directly and only SS in their
own sweet time. I find alot of the problems are thet they each run their
groups differently in different parts of the country so usually if you
find somone near to you who have solved the problem it cant be solved in
the same way else where.
Mum lives on her own now and i shall bo and see her next week and visit
my Sis, she wont know me of course and i must go and want to go but i
always feel so sad when there is absolutely nothing meaningful i can say
to her and so i will have the cup of tea they will give me then leave
again.
Good luck Jackie and to both of them too.

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The most wasted day of all is one in which we have not laughed
Len aka Old Grizzly


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