Hi.
I have a question and don't mean to offend anyone. I saw a video on facebook of a son asking his mother if she knew who he was. She didn't. She was calm and just eating icecream and drinking coffee and lounging around, but had no idea who he was. It was heartbreaking.
I've read that people with alzheimers can be combative, but are there cases where they are combative because they think a loved one is kidnapping them? Like making a scene and stuff?
Depending on the particular hallucination and their state of mind, so to speak, they can absolutely make a scene and it was the “stuff”, like hitting people, that landed her in the lockdown unit.
Her decline from forgetfulness, showing up for lunch when no lunch was planned, driving to someones house, but no knowing why etc, to violence was rapid. Within 2 years of diagnosis. It was in the 1980s when there wasn't much info on ALZ and I do not think any medication offered.