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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a home health caregiver, mostly with dementia patients and the disabled. My current assignment (15 months now) is with a profoundly demented patient who is nonverbal and immobile. He has cognitive capacity similar to an infant - I cared for a lot of infants in my life and the nice thing about them is that they’re cute and they get more able and cognizant with each passing day so there is joy in watching them develop into themselves.

It’s much harder to care for an adult sized elderly infant who will never know you, speak to you, understand what is happening around them. This particular assignment is burning me out pretty hard because it’s the very worst case scenario of how I would never in a million years want to end up. His body is really fairly healthy all things considered so he could be like this for several more years it’s anyone’s guess - the doctors don’t even know what form of dementia he has because it is very atypical and genetic testing has not clarified the picture at all. [/quote]

This is so sad and sounds awful for everyone involved. I pray this person gets sick and has a peaceful ending. No human should have to live like this. It’s cruel. We treat our dogs better. [/quote]

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