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[quote=Anonymous]I am the poster who has been through it and I tried to create a new email without my name and somehow messed up. OK...so I assume both people asking have a diagnosis-correct?? If so congrats. It was a whole ordeal to get that for us. So...here are my ideas...you may tell me many are impossible and I will tell you my parents were impossible. You have to keep chipping away at them, start gentle and get more nagging and try these things...

1.) Contact the primary doctor and others they see often. Let them know the situation and you need a doctor to recommend more help/memory care or whatever is needed based on what you shared. They cannot call you back and cannot share anything, but someone will note it in the chart and follow through. Document you did this.

2.) Find a good case manager at a nursing care agency and brainstorm with her/him how to get her/his foot in the door. These people should be trained on how to work with difficult elderly. you want the person to assess and figure out what services to recommend on a "trial basis" wink, wink. Even if you have to tell mom it's to ease your stress and has nothing to do with her do whatever it takes to get an expert in.

3.) Look into senior day centers-lifesavers. Ask the neurologists for places. Not all of them work with Alzheimer past a certain point. They often match elderly people who might get along. Again, this is just something to have them promise to try once for an hour "wink wink". Get ideas from the director as to how to sell it and when it is best to come for a visit. You sell it as something for dad so mom can go to doctor's appointments and take care of her health when really we want that, but we also want mom to rest, get her hair done, get some coffee, meet up with a friend or whatever. The social stimulation is great for people with dementia, etc. Even if the forget the new friend, they still can really enjoy themselves and live in the moment.

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