Did You Know Dementia Patients Get Agitated When Left Alone?

Are you dealing with an Alzheimer's patients that is mean and ornery? Or, sometimes mean and hard to deal with?Did you know that past a certain stage dementia patients cannot be left alone? Not even for a very short period of time.You Cannot Leave a Person Living with Alzheimer's AloneBy Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomSubscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail:Early on in my caregiving career I learneda very important lesson.You cannot leave a person with Alzheimer's alone even for a very short period of time.After a while I started noticing thatwhenever I left Dotty alone, and when I came backshe was often mean and angry. This lead to a very bad period. Sometimes this period lasted for hours and sometimes it lasted for days.I Finally Realized Alzheimer's Was the Enemy - Not My MomBasically Dotty was unhappy and I was unhappy. Unhappiness does not breed contentment and cooperation.How did I discover both this problem and the solution? I finally put one and one together and made three.Sometimes I would go out to throw out the trash and while out talk to a neighbor.I might be gone for 15 minutes. When I returned I could tellby the look on my mom's face that she was upset.The Frightened, Angry, Anxious, Mean Dementia PatientThen, I started noticing that whenmy mother would talk to my sister at night she would tell her,he was gone all day, I don't know what he is up to. Clearly Dotty was confused.I had been with her the entire day with the exceptions of those 15 minu...
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