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Loss of apetite, lethargy, exhaustion constant sleepiness
by bunci, Mar 28, 2009 03:38PM
My wife has been diagnosed to be at the early stage of Alzheimers or Dementia. She is on medication (Arizept and many other suggested vitamins).
She is loosing weight rapidly, has no interest in things (except great Granchildren).She sleeps during the night and most of the day if I do not take her for a ride. She refuses to walk with me,and do the usual things we used to do together.(She will do laundy almost daily however.)
My question is:
How can I stimulate her inerest to become mentally more active? She was been given several books to read, but does not seem to be interested in reading other than the daily flyes and ads. Her excuse is her macular degeneration (One eye).
I am desperately trying to help her, but do not know how to approach the probles as she seems to resent suggestions I make based on literature I read on the subject.
Thank you.
She is loosing weight rapidly, has no interest in things (except great Granchildren).She sleeps during the night and most of the day if I do not take her for a ride. She refuses to walk with me,and do the usual things we used to do together.(She will do laundy almost daily however.)
My question is:
How can I stimulate her inerest to become mentally more active? She was been given several books to read, but does not seem to be interested in reading other than the daily flyes and ads. Her excuse is her macular degeneration (One eye).
I am desperately trying to help her, but do not know how to approach the probles as she seems to resent suggestions I make based on literature I read on the subject.
Thank you.
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Based on my experience of looking after my grandmother for 6 months befor (very sadly) she went into a care home i would suggest to keep things simple as it will be a very confusing time for her from now on. Really simple things like just going to the local shop (for erercise) and listening to music (my grandma liked sinatra) but if your wife likes classical that would be great as it stimulates the mind. After she went into the home (some 16 years ago now) she used to take part in pottery class. She also used to go into the kitchen and do the staffs washing up ALL the time which kept her busy and the staff were very nice there. I still have the beautiful robin she made on my shelf. She passed away a 14 years ago but she was my rock and i loved spending time with her. Reading was very difficult for her, she would get lost and carry on with something else instead. I don't know if you have any help at all, or if you need it yet at this early stage but i would suggest you look into getting some support for yourself if you havn't already. If you want to ask me anything i'm more than happy to reply