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How do they handle the elderly that survived abuse and have Neurodivergent behavior disorders and CPTSD? As a former chronic run-away who grew up in the system due to cruddy parents I was never being sent back to, this would be pure hell on earth.
At one of the nursing homes I volunteered at occasionally (just went in and spent time with the residents, reading, talking, listening, crocheting, bingo, etc) used to respond to the “don’t example” with “ I know I stay in that room but it’s not my home” which always made a couple of the CNA’s frustrated and they would end up yelling at her. 🤬😬🤯
I seen a rescue show and this dog was very overweight and people were saying oh the dog was abused.. well the rescue had to let everyone know that the dog was super loved and taken care of but the owner got dementia over feed him and then the owner passed away . Luckily the dog was adopted by a family friend once the weight had gotten down ❤
Your tips are good and we used them 10 years ago with my father-in law. The only time I did not have an answer was when my father-in-law was out in his wheel chair for a short night walk with me and his grandchildren, We were a titch late getting back and set off alarms at his facility and the only one that was calm was him! He was a class act.
That did not work with my grandma she is determined to stay the way she is ...smelly and outworn clothes ...i feel so useless with her This has nothing to do with your video ,others have actually helped us im just talking out my frustration
Another unexpected is that there is no family training for brain injury from various causes of dementia. Heart patients/family and diabetic patients/family have post diagnoses training.
Unexpected.... gosh it's an evolution for both myself and my parent, about 10years in the process. Challenges include setting rule of no sugar and inflammatory foods in parents' care plan. Family onboard, it's been education of home health aides and nurses. Once they experience behaviors, they get it!! Parent's brain on sugar makes reactions off the charts. Diagnoses is Vascular dementia. Thank you for your channel and sharing resource with Homehealth Care Staff.
Yeah, a family friend's boyfriend calls her at 6am every morning to tell her "good morning, I'm going to the university, i'll call you later" cause he used to be a french professor at a university in town
My grandmother has dementia and even though she is home ( my grandfather is still around with her) she says she wants to go home so we just tell her she is home. Is there something else we can say that won’t upset her? I’m more talking about when I visit not as a care taker
My grandma has dementia and it’s gotten so bad that she’s been thinking that my grandpa and her parents are all still alive, I’m honestly not sure if she remembers that my mom’s her daughter anymore; I talked to my mom about it and we both agreed that it’d be better if Jesus would just take her home. I know it’s a pretty sad sentiment but she’s regressing so much that her quality of life isn’t good anymore. I’m not one to post personal comments like this but I can definitely say that writing songs about grief and death is much easier than actually experiencing it. I know she won’t get better because it’s a brain disease that doesn’t have a cure, I don’t really know how to end this little vent thing I’ve got going on, so uh yeah, that’s all, farewell.
My adopted grammie (she raised me and my sister like her own grandchildren). Her idiot alcoholic money grubbing daughter gave her a cat “to keep her company” at the nursing home instead of moving her inside the daughters very spacious home. Her two other daughters were not happy but live on the other side of the country and she was not willing to move to them. I would visit often and we had the opposite problem, she wasn’t feeding the cat because she forgot she had a cat and she would not clean the litter box cause no way could she get down and clean it. So on one of her lucid days my sister and I said we missed our cat and we live on a farm (no we didn’t kill the cat. We actually live on a farm) and said we think she’d love the able to run all over our huge ranch. She agreed it was best for her. We would sometimes bring her by to visit but her room smelled better and soon she stopped asking about “cat” … yeah she named her cat. The daughter tried to take credit for the idea but we knew the truth and just rolled our eyes. “Cat” is nearly 11, she quickly put weight on when we got her and she is spoiled rotten and is a damn good barn cat.
Skip the memory quiz. You already know there is memory loss. Greet them by name, state your name, & the relationship. Eg. Hi Mom, I'm your daughter Beverly. I also changed the picture on my cell phone to the picture with the two of us, and showed them the picture every time.
1 of the lady I'm taking care of in the nursing home has dementia and she always call out for mommy when she is anxious and lonely. Apparently just want mommy to pamper her, but she's like 90. One of the ways that we use to reassure her is telling her "mommy loves you so much", "she made you this beautiful dinner", "look mommy got you a teddy bear", and she calms down most of the time.
Dad would say he just wanted to be at home. No particular reason other than he didn't want to be where he was. Home was security to him - i think he remembered feeling comfortable and in control there.
In Venezuela, telling them something like "there's a nationwide strike" or "the office called and the whole area has no power, so they called off work" would be plausible
Do you have any suggestions for my helping my grandpa stop (he has dementia and Parkinson’s) feeding my dog from his plate? Sometimes the food he gives her upsets her stomach.
When we moved my mom to the assisted living facility, she refused to shower. She hated showers, afraid she'd get her hair wet (that's another storey). She was there for four months and never showered. She broke her tail bone, refused PT. She was in long term care and passed three weeks later. She also refused to eat or drink. 😢
@@marciahiggins9377 There *seems* to have been a generation of American women who had a problem about getting their hair wet. My aunt had a beauty shop in a tiny town. Sooooo many ladies came in weekly for their wash&set - and of course gossip :) There is no way in heck these ladies would wash their own hair between weekly visits. Taking a bath? Shower cap! Taking a shower? Some of my relatives would never use a shower - they might get their hair wet! The ones I'm thinking about are all deceased, and that habit now seems bizarre. OTOH I think how my gransmother would react to me (I'm nearly geriatric) Kool-Aid dying my hair.
My mother has hallucinations but her best friend is a nurse and she says she also has pretty bad cataracts. Apparently if you have really bad cataracts and can't see very well you will see shapes and your mind will create vivid hallucinations to fill in the missing pieces. I looked on a website and it said extremely vivid people or things. My mom will go up to the object that she can see but when she reaches out it will disappear and something else will be there like a chair She thinks someone's sitting in the chair but when she reaches out she touches his chair. I have my fingers so crossed.
I will not be able to handle years for my father . It has been only 8 months and he is deteriorating mentally as well as physically. I have extreme difficulty handling him physically as he is hemiplegic and no sense of balance or depth perception.I can handle the dementia part but physically very difficult.. I am a senior too and i want to live life while i can . I figure I have 15 years before I am same way as dad is now but I have no kids or partner to look after me in that time and I am starting to become resentful
