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Elder-caregivers

dflprincess

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1. I don't know if this will help with her meds

Reply to Ilsa (Original post)

Tue Jun 11, 2019, 10:05 PM

Jun 2019

but one thing that helped my friend's mom as her dementia got worse, was a clock with the date & day of the week on it (as well as AM and PM, she had taken to calling my friend at 5 AM, thinking it was 5 pm). Everything was in very large letters & numbers.

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Sadly, my live-in mother-in-law's dementia is getting worse. [View all] Ilsa Jun 2019 OP

I don't know if this will help with her meds dflprincess Jun 2019 #1

We used this for Mom until she moved in with us. Deb Jun 2019 #2

Good! thank you for this. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2019 #5

Wow! What a neat system! Ilsa Jun 2019 #11

I am so sorry, Ilsa. It is so difficult to be a caregiver to family as we watch them decline... FM123 Jun 2019 #3

Overdosing is my fear as well. Ilsa Jun 2019 #10

As my grandmother got less capable (and was at the live-in stage, but before home-nurse-help stage) RockRaven Jun 2019 #4

Thank you. Ilsa Jun 2019 #9

has a doctor evaluated her meds lately Skittles Jun 2019 #6

Her meds were looked at by a dr (hospitalist) Ilsa Jun 2019 #7

This morning she is better. Ilsa Jun 2019 #8