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I had just posted a question about dementia and shelter in place before I saw your question.
I care for my Aunt while in Montana. She is in California!
Her ALF has been on total isolation for 2 weeks .
I have noticed that she had become increasingly confused.
She has started asking about going home again. She is stressed over her belongings. These issues had decreased tremendously over the last 2 months , but are now at her forefront!
I think because she has nothing else to occupy her mind, her mind has gone back to what is familiar.
It doesn't seem to matter that she has been told that her home has been sold and all of her belongings are safe, she now seems consumed with worry.
I am praying that once she can resume what had been her normal activities, she will settle in again.
I have come to equate any change in a dementia patients routine, is like moving furniture on a blind person. It throws their world upside down! When what is familiar and safe has been changed, they have to struggle to navigate!
Our loved ones Dementia is never going to get better, however, praying that they can get back to some sense of normality!
God bless!
The only person that I have been close to with Alzheimer’s was my godmother. She lived in a nursing home towards the end of her life. She also went blind from macular degeneration.
She went through Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans which was devastating in 2005. She did not even know there was a hurricane. She thought the nursing home was taking her on a ‘road trip’ during the evacuation. She truly wasn’t aware of the catastrophe.
So who knows how much a person truly understands. I think it depends on the stage of the disease and so forth.
This is such a hard time for everyone, things will go better, they have to! And yes, thanks God you didn't break your leg.
I did notice more memory problems with my mom and some confusion. She watches the news a lot, there's no way to stop her. She also didn't sleep well recently, but I'm not worrying too much, I noticed in the past that when she's stressed these things occurr, but so far they've all went back to normal when the stress passed.