Dementia in Japan: my grandparents have dementia 2 (symptoms of dementia)
Following my previous article, I will write here about demented grandmother's symptoms.
My grandmother:
Cannot:
-communicate properly
-understand who I am, my parents are as well as her husband
-wear cloths by herself
-go outside by herself
-turn on and off switches
-read (do not understand what the phrases/letter means)
-wash her body by herself
-have sense of seasonality as well as day and date
-find toilet
Can:
-walk slowly with support
-speak, hear and sleep
-physiological functions (eating and drinking (however does not recognize thirst), to urinate, to defecate (although constipated), )
-remember past memories sometimes
Problematic behaviour:
-urinate on rubbish bins and the bathroom (bathroom and room for toilet are separated and different) in the house
-try to give money (financially she cannot afford it)
-wash dishes although she forgot how to wash
-suddenly upset
-pull a diaper apart
-hide things/forget where she put
-bring things from somewhere
-hide everything in her bag
-brush her teeth with something not tooth brush and tooth paste
Others:
-very sensitive to the cold
-a bit of high blood pressure
-hallucination
Light dimentia symptoms have stared few years ago, and rapidly it has become serious last year. She used to live with her husband (my grandfather), and last year, she was fainted due to constipation and dehydration. At the day, my grandfather called to my mother and told her something wrong with my grandmother (She was already half uncounscious at the moment). When my parents went to see what was going on my grandma, she was smeared with her excreations and lying on the floor, and my grandfather was trying to clean up that. My parents called ambulance and she was hospitalized for a while. It seems that her symptoms of dementia rapidly became serious.
