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Is your Mom up for placing him in a facility? Please get the Dr involved. And if he becomes aggressive towards Mom, call the paramedics. You can try APS for your Mom.
I'm so sorry you guys are going through this and it seems there's no help when it hits the fan. Let us Know what happens. Stay close.💛
Hallucinations are common in LBD. Often they are benign -- seeing little children playing in the yard. Delusions are very common in many kinds of dementia. Believing that the neighbors are spying on you, for example.
In LBD a sleep disorder called RBD is common. It involves scary dreams and making defensive moves while sleeping. Once my husband hit me in the chest while dreaming. We both woke up. What was going on?! He explained that he was trying to defend me from the bad guys. I told him as long as it was a just a dream he should let the bad guys have me!
RBD can be easily treated with a med.
There is a new drug on the market (which I have no experience with) that may be helpful for delusions and hallucinations in Parkinson's. It is Nuplazid.
I guess my recommendation is to start with his physicians, especially any specialists for the Parkinson's or LBD. Try to reduce/eliminate the paranoid delusions. This would be helpful for your mom or for any future long-term-care facilities. You may not have success, but it certainly is worth trying, in my opinion.
I'm hoping others with experience dealing w/meds and hallucinations will pop up and help. But in the meantime you can search that subject in other posts. Then can see what suggestions were given then.
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In the search box just put something like , LBD meds for hallucinations, see what pops up. Good luck.
PCP primary care physician.
A friend’s Dad was diagnosed with LBD last winter. He was combative, the police had to come with the ambulance, but it was a neighbour who managed to ‘talk him down’ and get him into the ambulance.
He was in hospital for about a month while they waited for a bed to open up for him in a Long term care facility. It simply was not safe for his wife or him to be home.
It came on very quickly. At times he is lucid and with it. Other times he is 30 years in the past. Or aggressive and scary.
How long has he been like this? Is it a new behavior? Has he been tested for a UTI?
Either way, I believe your Mom is in danger. Especially since you say he's physically fine. So he must have strength yet. I would not leave Mom alone with him.
Ask PCP for an evaluation for a memory care facility asap. This is a serious situation. But in the mean time don't hesitate to call 911 or take him to ER. He is a danger to others.
Please come back and let us know how it goes. Others here will likely have better suggestions. Hang in there and protect Mom.