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Wizzboccadoro Asked April 5, 2024

My husband will not eat anything other than sandwiches and ice cream, he has dementia. Any ideas?

ZippyZee Apr 5, 2024
Buy him ice cream sandwiches.

Daughterof1930 Apr 5, 2024
I’d watch him enjoying sandwiches and ice cream and not worry over it a bit

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Geaton777 Apr 5, 2024
Your profile says your husband is:

"...79 years old, living in a nursing home with alzheimer's / dementia, anxiety, depression, hearing loss, incontinence, mobility problems, and sleep disorder."

Is he in AL or MC or SNF? LTC?

I'm not sure it's a battle that needs to be fought. At his age and with his problems, he's not building a body for the future anymore so nutrition is more about just getting enough calories for daily expenditure.

My 100-yr old Aunt lived on corn muffins & coffee for breakfast, 1/2 can of chicken soup for lunch and the other half of that can of soup for dinner almost every single day for years.

AlvaDeer Apr 5, 2024
I would allow him at this point to eat whatever he likes.
The goal is not to make him live a long and healthy life with a broken mind.

waytomisery Apr 5, 2024
Maybe he would eat a veggie burger sandwich to get some veggies .

Anxietynacy Apr 5, 2024
Can I ask how old your husband is and his health issues?

Technically you can make sandwiches rather healthy, has starch , and protein, and add tomatoes or something. There is worse food than ice cream.

funkygrandma59 Apr 5, 2024
Let him just eat his sandwiches and ice-cream if that's what makes him happy.
When someone has dementia, you have to choose your battles, and I'm not sure this one is worth fighting.
A happy dementia person eating sandwiches and ice-cream is much better than an unhappy one forced to eat food they don't want. I'm just saying.
My late husband who had vascular dementia, ate sandwiches every single day for lunch for many months as that was all he wanted, and hot dogs for supper.
Of course that all changed when he developed aspiration pneumonia and I had to then pureed all his foods, but as long as he was eating something, I was happy and so was he.

Southernwaver Apr 5, 2024
Make him milkshakes and sandwiches.

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