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How long does chemo brain usually last?
Does chemo brain ever go away? For most patients, chemo brain improves within 9-12 months after completing chemotherapy, but many people still have symptoms at the six-month mark. A smaller fraction of people (approximately 10-20%) may have long-term effects.
Here is a useful link to the American Cancer Society's site discussing in detail managing side effects from chemotherapy, mainly mood changes and thinking difficulties:
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/managing-cancer/side-effects/changes-in-mood-or-thinking/confusion.html
Assisted Living facilities do not "treat" residents for anything. They just provide care for elders who are fairly independent, honestly, or who require help with activities of daily living *ADLs*
Speak to her doctor about chemo side effects, chemo brain, and whether antidepressants (or other meds) may help your aunt get through these difficult treatments.
Best of luck to you.
I'm sure, like anything else, the older you are, the harder it is to throw of the side effects of something like chemo.
Best of luck.
Sit down with mom and make a list of questions for the doc & write them down beforehand.
You aren't responsible for your aunt, be careful, you could get sucked into a long term caregiving situation! So could your mom.
I personally think that auntie would get better care for both her physical and psychological problems in one setting with many caregivers. Then uncle can be a supportive hubby, but not be killling himsef out of kindness.
It is so often overlooked by drs and others but caregivers stress, exhaustion are real.
If aunt can pay find any facility that would take her to give him a break.