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For the past 5-8 years she has had auditory hallucinations with complete dramatic scenarios like a soap opera. She heard the voices during the night and during the day and would ask us during visits whether we heard them. She was sure she could hear the drama with the family across the street through her closed windows. At 90, she chose to sell her home and move to independent living in a continuuing care community and left the family behind. Over the last two years, she has acquired another family in the apartment above her apartment. She has been willing to talk with her neurologist (acquired during her one and only seizure 11 years ago) and her PCP about this "experience" and is on a low dose of aricept.
Until recently she has refused to see a psychiatrist, but she is getting more and more irritated by the cast of characters. She also has a fixed delusion that something is wrong with her son (my husband) and has woken me in the middle of the night on my cell to tell me that she is dressed and ready to go visit him in the hospital. She is aware that it is night, but believes that he is in such dire condition we should go to the hospital NOW.
She will sometimes acknowledge that these "experiences" happen when she wakes up during the night or from a short daytime snooze that these are "dreams", but then recount them as if they are real.
Otherwise she is good health, walks a mile almost daily, eats well, no signs of sleep deprivation, she has many people that she spends time with, she attends classes, etc. daily and has an involved and supportive family.
We have told her that these episodes are caused by changes in her brain and that
these "episodes" are very real to her, but we do not hear what she is hearing. She is very smart and well-educated and has been given more technical explanations by her doctors.
We are trying to get her an appointment with a geripsychiatrist, but four have refused her as a patient for a variety of reasons. I have moved to the fifth on my list.
Any comments out there
Grace
Thank you soooooo much. You have helped a great deal.
Anyone can develop hallucinations at any time, at any age. You did not say what your mother's age was. However, in an elderly person, I would suspect that hallucinations would be most likely caused by:
1. Dementia.
2. Late-onset schizophrenia.
3. Unusual reaction/intolerance to prescription medications.
If it's caused by dementia, there's not much that can be done. If it's schizophrenia, it can be controlled with medication. If it's a med reaction, the solution is to stop or switch that medication.
Hope that helps.