009 – Q&A: Answers to Your Questions on Helping Older Parents

Dr. K answers nine audience questions related to helping older parents:

How to find a facility for an older father with dementia who is a “two-person assist”? How to make sense of the jargon on care levels and how are facilities classified?
How to help an older mother with bipolar, especially if she seems to be going into a manic phase?
How to maintain sanity and better respond to an older father with Alzheimer’s disease, who gets agitated and angry in the afternoons and evenings?
Whether to worry about withdrawal symptoms, after an older mother is hospitalized and treated with haloperidol for delirium
How to keep assisting without losing hope, in the context of a mother with Alzheimer’s and an older father with Parkinson’s and sleep problems
What to do when it’s hard to get an older mother to take her medications, and how to get her to understand the importance of recommended procedures such as cataract surgery
What to do if both you and your elderly mother have been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, and how to handle caregiving issues
Whether anxiety can cause abdominal pain and shortness of breath in someone with dementia, and how to improve bad breath that has been attributed to acid reflux
What can be done if an older father with mild cognitive impairment has been refusing to leave the house for several months

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