How can I try to make someone with Alzheimers trust and understand me?
Sunday, March 8th, 2009
I found out about an year ago that my grandmother has Alzheimers . She has been getting worse and to the point where it is affecting her health and family relationships.
I have been patient with her disease, but lately it has been getting out of hand. I used to go along with the things she would say/imagine so that i wouldn’t confuse her, but i can’t do that anymore.
I can’t go along with this anymore for MANY safety reasons. These are Only some of the reasons/problems:
She claims that she already drank her medicine when it is clear that she has not, and she has to drink A LOT of it to function well
She also claims that I take her money when she really has no money left!
I tried to go along with it once, letting her beleive that I did take her money, but she ended up not trusting me for a good while!
It breaks my heart that the only things she remembers out of her whole day is that I took her money or that i’m tricking her into drinking more medicine.
What do I do?
Edgar
