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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 317345" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Abbey...at some point you are not going to have a choice. Alzheimers is not pretty. It does not pick and choose based on your social status. It is not a character defect. Heavens, Ronald Reagan had it! I think he qualified as being in the socially elite. </p><p></p><p>Your family is going to have to look into some kind of services for him. I know you are a small town but you should have an agency that serves the aging. Not sure what they call it up there but look in the phone book for something like division of aging or something like that. Call them and ask them for help with someone with alzheimers. They should be able to point you to any services in your area. I am assuming your father in law is old enough for medicare. They may pay for some help. Cant hurt to find out. If he has some money, he can pay for "sitters". </p><p></p><p>The wandering he does around dark is called sundowning. It is so normal with this disease. My mom used to do it all the time. My boys would sleep on pallets in front of my doors. We finally made a fake picture up of a big chest of drawers to put in front of our back door so she wouldnt try to go out that door and we got child proof door knobs for the front door so she couldnt get out the front door. It really got bad in the house. We had to child proof all the kitchen cabinets and the fridge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 317345, member: 1514"] Abbey...at some point you are not going to have a choice. Alzheimers is not pretty. It does not pick and choose based on your social status. It is not a character defect. Heavens, Ronald Reagan had it! I think he qualified as being in the socially elite. Your family is going to have to look into some kind of services for him. I know you are a small town but you should have an agency that serves the aging. Not sure what they call it up there but look in the phone book for something like division of aging or something like that. Call them and ask them for help with someone with alzheimers. They should be able to point you to any services in your area. I am assuming your father in law is old enough for medicare. They may pay for some help. Cant hurt to find out. If he has some money, he can pay for "sitters". The wandering he does around dark is called sundowning. It is so normal with this disease. My mom used to do it all the time. My boys would sleep on pallets in front of my doors. We finally made a fake picture up of a big chest of drawers to put in front of our back door so she wouldnt try to go out that door and we got child proof door knobs for the front door so she couldnt get out the front door. It really got bad in the house. We had to child proof all the kitchen cabinets and the fridge. [/QUOTE]
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