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Dementia Inspired Behavior

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Mr. Q has had his ups and downs the past few days. He had done some of the same things he has done the past month. Not much has changed. In general he has picked up some new habits, while some older ones have disappeared. These will probably continue to change as time goes by. He is now wearing diapers, when before he did not need them. Where a while ago he was wearing multiple sets of clothes, now it is no problem, like before, wearing a single shirt or pair of pants. Before it was often a problem giving him his medicine, but now it is not a problem.

I think many are surprised that Mr. Q seems to be such a problem. Well unless you have had to personally deal with someone with an advanced stage of Alzheimer’s it will seem that way. The problems never seem to go away, whether it is the same set of problems or new problems that arise. That is part of the experience one will experience if they have to be personally involved in caring for someone with Alzheimer’s or dementia. Not all the things that will happen will be like Mr. Q and others may have mild problems compared to Mr. Q or more problems than him, but in most cases there will be some difficulty in caring for a person with dementia or Alzheimer’s.

Mr. Q was in a convalescent home about a month and his relatives never heard of the things we are experiencing. However there were some differences there and of course they would not likely detail all the things that did happen there with him. Mr. Q was also heavily sedated while there, probably because they could not have a person assigned to just watch him like we have to do. He is not heavily drugged here so there would likely be more problems. Also he slept most of the time there. Here he needs to participate in some activities and eat three meals daily to stay strong. So he cannot sleep all day like he probably did there if heavily sedated.

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