Back again

I have been rather slack lately with my blogs as so much has been going on.

George is coping quite well still in many areas although not in others. The other day he changed his clothes five times during the day. He gets very tired during the summer and has been going to have a sleep in the late afternoon.

When something is not going quite right for him he starts moaning which is rather disconcerting as you are never sure what the problem is. He just goes 'ah ah...' and has difficulty articulating what the problem is.

Last night we had friends round for a drink. I had bought a bottle of wine which George opened. At the same time he opened another one which I had been given as a Christmas gift. After the others had left he continued to have a few more wines. This morning he got up and went and got the paper. The only problem was it belonged to the neighbour. I got him to take it to their place. He came back and went back to bed and back to sleep. I found that he had poured himself three cups of coffee!!

Assessment

A woman came to assess George yesterday. She is from Health care who organise various things to enable people to stay in their homes as long as possible.

She told George he needed to clean his teeth and that he had missed parts when shaving - he was pretty uptight about her as he has always been very fascidious in his personal care and this has been a difficult one for him now.

She obviously doesn't know about how to treat those with dementia and not to sweat the small things...