Comments on: Dementia – Symptoms, Diagnosis and Ways to Help http://www.transitionagingparents.com/2009/04/28/dementia-symptoms-diagnosis-and-ways-to-help/ Providing insight and information to adult children of aging parents so they may "thrive and find joy" in every stage of life! Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:33:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dale http://www.transitionagingparents.com/2009/04/28/dementia-symptoms-diagnosis-and-ways-to-help/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Dale Tue, 12 May 2009 18:01:28 +0000 http://www.transitionagingparents.com/?p=65#comment-15 If I saw this in my mother, I would contact her primary care physician to get an exam and evaluation. Be sure you share your mother-in-law's behavior with the doctor. In Virginia Morris' book, How to Care for Your Aging Parents, she says the doctor will do some or all of the following: take patient history, examine mood and mental state (sometimes using the MMSE, Mini-mental state exam), lab tests, and neurologic exam. The doctor should then be able to make a diagnosis, provide appropriate treatment and follow-up; and also, share local resources for you to turn to for help. If he can't supply a list of local resources, go to the site http://www.eldercare.gov (input your zip code) and you'll find your local Area on Aging office. Here's a Webmd article on Dementia that you may find helpful: http://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/guide/alzheimers-dementia Another resource for any form of dementia is Alzheimer's Association, 800-272-3900 or www.alz.org I hope this info helps you. Dale... If I saw this in my mother, I would contact her primary care physician to get an exam and evaluation. Be sure you share your mother-in-law’s behavior with the doctor. In Virginia Morris’ book, How to Care for Your Aging Parents, she says the doctor will do some or all of the following: take patient history, examine mood and mental state (sometimes using the MMSE, Mini-mental state exam), lab tests, and neurologic exam.
The doctor should then be able to make a diagnosis, provide appropriate treatment and follow-up; and also, share local resources for you to turn to for help.
If he can’t supply a list of local resources, go to the site http://www.eldercare.gov (input your zip code) and you’ll find your local Area on Aging office.

Here’s a Webmd article on Dementia that you may find helpful: http://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/guide/alzheimers-dementia
Another resource for any form of dementia is Alzheimer’s Association, 800-272-3900 or http://www.alz.org

I hope this info helps you. Dale…

]]> By: april http://www.transitionagingparents.com/2009/04/28/dementia-symptoms-diagnosis-and-ways-to-help/comment-page-1/#comment-14 april Tue, 12 May 2009 02:36:04 +0000 http://www.transitionagingparents.com/?p=65#comment-14 i am having a problem. my mother inlaw lives with us. she has excessive behavior , terrible mood swings, and is mean. i need info and don't know what to do?! who can help? i am having a problem. my mother inlaw lives with us. she has excessive behavior , terrible mood swings, and is mean. i need info and don’t know what to do?! who can help?

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