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Is the demented person responsible for anything or everythingthey do?
Tom has gone to stay in a nursing home because he has unable to walk but will be able to walk again in tim2 but he's also got a problem with his kidneys and he is having dialysis Next to him Lady of approximately 97. She likes to go around and say goodnight to everyone. Since the New Year she's been going to come round more and more frequently. She has been a nuisance to me and I am normally a very patient person. She came to my room more than 30 times in one evening between 5 and 8 p.m. She came in when I was naked. Then she came in after I turnevd the lights out. She frightened me, Although I'm begging her not to come she refuses to to do what I want. So 8 p.m. I put a heavy chair behind my door. She's bothered the woman in the next room to me bed bound and she's been boring this man that I mentioned called Tom I heard him in half an hour ago shouting so I went through my door and looked and he was shouting at someone in the dining room which turn out to be the ...
Taking literally what an old person says is not always the best approach
No I had never seen anyone anyone with dementia until I came here and I thought they wouldn't be able to communicate but there's a lovely lady next to me. I didn't know that she's got dementia and it took me awhile to realise that not everything she said was true. What night about 10 she started screaming and and the screaming all demented person is hard to ignore The nurse was unable to help her and after an hour I couldn't stand it anymore so I went in and asked what was wrong and she said I want to go go home, so I said where is your home? She then said the name of this place sit will you are there you are at home already this is your room and you fully recognise my voice because I have an extra room to you and immediately she quieten down and was quite calm she been having a nightmare about travelling in a car which two strangers and she became frightened. But my voice then with him enough to calm her. Octoberi she died so maybe the dream was about that Since...
The shouting and the screaming
Thi s morning was very noisy for me. There are only 4 people on this side of the buildings on the ground floor. Apart from myself there are three women aged around und 97 to 99 Two of them have definitely got dementia and the third one probably has as I'm not certain This morning they are all all you doing a lot of noise. One was screaming and a passed her d. she said that she wanted to sit in her chair because she was in bed and she said the bed was wet she had nothing over but she was wearing a t-shirt and a pair of incontinence pants. She begged me to get her out of bed but I can't do that because I am not one of the staff and in any case it takes two people to do it Then two of the stuff arrived so I left. As I walk back to my room the one who can walk about who I call Edna sitting at the dining table holding a very heavy stick which he was banging on the floor over and over again so I came back to my room and close the door but then I heard the third one sobbing and cryin...
Everything is alright
Yes some days the screaming is less affecting. Those who weep seem to be comforted. The staff more relaxed. Annoying things are een as humorous. Spring is in the air. Someone bring me some snowdrops Someone brings me a chocolate eclair I had a poor appetite but it's better and enjoy this cake. But it's still boring exit when I start writing poems or one of my friends writes. Something isn't right in the morning but before lunch something shift inside me and I feel as if I am standing on stable ground again All is right with the world
The good part of losing your memory
No you may forget some good things you might also forget some bad events in your life and as we grow older this may be a blessing in some ways Similarly it help me to deal with some of the people with dementia whom I had to be stern with it's help me to know that they may very well forget all about it. It's very hard for them I can see that. On wake up in the morning thex6 don't recognise their room. They wonder if they are in the right place: this makes it very hard to relax. Sometimes they shout I want to go home. Staff think they want to go back to the to the old home. Are houses being sold to pay their fees? They can't go back but they don't mean that they mean that they are confused they don't recognise the room I look after my husband at home for the last 8 months of his life he was very ill with heart failure. In the last month he said to me this house does not feel like our house anymore. If you are here I know it must be right so I'm ok. I'm ...