My 91 year old Mom is in the middle stage of dementia. She lives with me and I'm her sole caregiver. She recently started having extreme mood swings that is hard to deal with. She will go from total depression where is is unable to move to staying up all night cleaning her room. Is this related to the dementia and how do I handle this? Any advice is appreciated.
Then you are on to watching, keeping a kind of diary of things that are unusual or more disturbing both to you and to your Mom. You may be looking at a need for medication from a good doctor, but will need the evidence to present about the changes you are seeing.
Good luck.
Sooner you get this checked out, the better. I know with COVID they aren't seeing a lot of patients 'in house' but they bend the rules a little for special cases.
Good Luck.