The latest “developments” with my maternal grandmother, just saw her earlier on today…
She started getting paranoid, especially lately, and, she told her caretaker, and her family members who visited (me, and maybe, there were, someone else, like my uncles and aunts, I wouldn’t know!!!), that someone’s out to get her, and, when I asked who, she couldn’t tell me, but, one thing’s for sure, she’s, very scared when she talked about it.
That got me thinking, that maybe, she should get some anti-psychotic meds with her Aricept, but, I’m not sure, that my uncles and aunt, and my mother would want to place her on meds, as there are, side effects to those things (i.e. dry mouth, or whatever, how the HELL should I know, I’m NOT a doctor here you know???), and, the only one she has with her constantly is, her caretaker, someone the family hired, from abroad, to look after her…
Paranoia, as her dementia progressed, and, maybe, this, is just a unique situation (I still wouldn’t know, cause I’m only in “contact” with my maternal grandmother who’d been diagnosed already???), and, all I can do, is to, try to assure her, that nobody’s out to get her, and yet, she’s still scared, and, her conditions are just, going to, get worse now, as dementia is irreversible, even WITH Aricept, and, that just, no longer worked, maybe, grandma needs, a mild form of anti-psychotic, to help her feel better, I wouldn’t know here, ‘cuz I still don’t have an M.D. in psychiatry, but, isn’t the point, in this stage of her life to make her life, easier………