Alzheimers

[katautumn]

Driving and handling finances are two big concerns, especially when they start getting confused. One of the first signs of the early stages of Alzheimer's is confusion over simple mathematical calculations and forgetting how to get somewhere familiar in the car. My husband had to start tending to his mother's finances when she gave someone five-hundred dollars for the "internet". Basically, a scam artist came to the door one day saying he was selling the internet and my poor MIL had no clue what the internet was, only that this man was telling her that she needed it in order to continue receiving cable television. When my husband got home from work she said she had the internet in a box in her bedroom. It was only a used modem. It infuriates me that people take advantage of the elderly! But she got to where her other son was begging for money and she was writing him checks left and right and it was going to support his alcohol problem. She was also getting really bad about sending checks to the wrong people.

 

[NicInNC]

I have had a lot of experience with Alzheimers. I'm a Certified Nurse Assistant and have worked for a facility that had 80% alzheimers patients. I've also taken many extra classes specializing in alzheimers. What do you need to know?