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I would like to hear more about dementia patients & how families deal with this. Example: my mother lives in an Adult Family Home. She is wheelchair bound due to numerous fractures & severe osteoporosis & arthritis. Her short term memory is almost non-existent. Mom has her good days & her bad days. When I visit & she is having a bad day, she is depressed, and won’t talk much. She doesn’t believe anything you tell her, complaining about everything from the food to the other residents & on & on. My mom is on an antidepressant. She has gained about 15 lbs in the 9 months she has been there & caregivers tell me she eats well.
This is the dilemma – how do I handle visits when she is like this? I visit about 1x a week. My sister, who lives farther away, visits about once a month. Mom says my sister has never been to see her. I don’t argue with my Mom, but visiting is so frustrating.
Can anyone tell me how they cope??? Need some help dealing with Mom. Nancy
