There is a lady here with dementia and she walked round and round the building a lot
At the beginning she walk around just ones and said goodnight to everybody After is
Christmas she started doing it 3 times 4 times 5 times and eventually one day she came to my room 30 times to say goodnight and she'll say him to ask me to lend her some pyjamas which I could not do. When we try to stop her from coming round she can get quite angry.
There's another lady the same age she's not got dementia but she subs and cries a good deal and she can't walk by herself she has to have a carer or two hairs help her to get out of bed into a chair.
She has got very distressed with the woman called Edna and goes round and round say goodnight afraid of her
On Saturday I was with the second lady let's call her Magus huge
The frightening experience of not knowing where you are
I have spend some in the last 3 months with someone with dementia and I have begun to understand what is troubling her. I just mentioned that she can't walk about anymore so she is more dependant on carers to find her a wheelchair sometimes she has to wait quite a long time because it needs two people to get her from bed into the wheelchair. So I suppose she wonders if they are actually going to do it It must be very frustrating for her It's this. When she wakes up in the morning or if she has a nap in the daytime and then wakens up, she is very anxious to know whether she is in the right room it's on the right floor etc so she feels afraid and will start to scream or shout but if someone comes in and says I want to go home they don't realise that she means she's not sure where she is is she in the right room they think she wants to go back to the home she lived in before she became ill. Last night she was calling out and I'll say what s the matter and she sai...
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