My Mother use to get up each day at 8:30am but recently, she has been sleeping till late afternoon. Mom has dementia but in great health. She has been quite nasty to me lately; accusing me of not loving her; which gets me mad being I take care of her each day. My husband intercedes and gets angry because we do everything we can to make her life livable; not putting her into a nursing home and as we both know she's not doing this on purpose due to the dementia, it's very hurtful and causing problems at home. I have tried to get her assistance, relieving us of some caregiving, but she has approximately over $10K in savings; which is deminishing fast paying her bills and part of that is set aside for funeral expenses and I am trying to find any organization to at least help with partime help in assisting in her daily life that the government sponsors? The only income she receives is $505.00 per month from Social Security. We reside in Upstate, New York. So, two questions.....is this normal for her to sleep so long and is there any help out there that I am unaware of? Most organizations say she has too much money in the bank.
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My mom is a widow of a veteran and will check into that. Called Social Security the other day and they told me she needs to have less than $2,000 to qualify for Medicaid. She lives with us and the thought of putting her in assisted living is not our intention. In as far as SSRI's....I was laughing because our doctor always says....."One of you should be on antidepressants!" LOL!
@fregflyer.....thanks for your post as well!!
With dementia, it's my understanding that sometimes those with that illness will be awake at night... check in in the wee hours of the morning to see if she is asleep or not.
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