My mom has late stage dementia and she refuses to take her medication for her anxiety, she tells me that she already took it or the Dr gave it to her. Any suggestions?
i have tried putting it in her food and a dissolving pill. She doesn’t really eat She snacks and any food she does take she spits out. I don’t know what to do if she would just take it it would help her be calm.
With my dad, we were advised to put the Xanax (I think?) tablet under his tongue, and it dissolved right away. We could do that in various ways without his noticing, believe it or not.
We were just discussing this issue at my caregivers support group this morning, and the suggestions were either crushing the medications and putting them in applesauce, pudding or mashed up bananas or the like, or seeing if her medications come in a liquid form that would make it easy to give or put in her food. Both options would need to be discussed with the pharmacist, as not all pills can be crushed or come in liquid form.
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Both options would need to be discussed with the pharmacist, as not all pills can be crushed or come in liquid form.
So, Richardo's Rice pudding or Chocolate pudding from Trader Joe's would be my recommend.
And if not, perhaps all those meds aren't doing a whole lot anymore anyway.
I would discuss this with her MD.