trouble in the Neighbor

[mumofsix]

Case Closed

 

[mrchicks]

Is this an elderly person?

 

[Alice28]

How old is this neighbor? Lots of these sound like alzhimers or damentia warning signs. If you know of a family member maybe contact them and let them know. Otherwise you could contact a senior resource center and they could give you the number for senior social workers that could come and check on her and evaluate her. If you don't believe that could be it, I reccommend saving for fencing or planting a fast growing hedge. I would imagine she is lonely, and if she is forgetting more and more I'm sure she is also angry and scared. Although she isn't doing herself any favors getting nasty with everyone. But dementia and alzhimers can also change people's personality.

 

[mrchicks]

How old is this neighbor? Lots of these sound like alzhimers or damentia warning signs. If you know of a family member maybe contact them and let them know. Otherwise you could contact a senior resource center and they could give you the number for senior social workers that could come and check on her and evaluate her. If you don't believe that could be it, I reccommend saving for fencing or planting a fast growing hedge. I would imagine she is lonely, and if she is forgetting more and more I'm sure she is also angry and scared. Although she isn't doing herself any favors getting nasty with everyone. But dementia and alzhimers can also change people's personality.

 

[Alice28]

Yah, I took care of my grandpa with Alzheimers, use to work in an alzhimers care home and have worked in two other elderly care homes as well. Sound like all the warning signs to me. Very sad

 

[mrchicks]

It is sad. My mil had Alzheimers, I was her caretaker. Hopefully someone will intervene on this woman's behalf, she needs help.

 

[Alice28]

You would hope so. I have already made a will because I'm worried about having it when I get older because two out of my three biological grandparents have it. It's amazing how many people miss the warning signs and how long it can take people to get the care they need.

 

[mrchicks]

My MIL did great at hiding it for years. She was the "crabby old lady" of the neighborhood and avoided any conversation that was more than 5 minutes long. She knew that she would start repeating herself. Hubby and I didn't find out until she called hysterical that there was a foreclosure notice on her door. She insisted that she had been paying her mortgage. I found that she had been writing the checks, then putting them in a shoe box. She lived in a different state, so we didn't have daily contact to see what was really going on. After spending a weekend with her to try to straighten out the mystery of the mortgage payments, we realized what was happening. We moved her in with us.

 

[Alice28]

My grandpa was super nice and would hug everyone and say nice things about my dad (very not like him at all!) so in many ways it was nice to see that side if him, but he couldn't hide it. It all was fast and he became very child like after being the primary provider for his family at age nine was his father abandoned him, his mother and all his siblings. I had worked in two care homes at that point and my grandma had brought up me coming to help a few times. Finally I got the brains to leave the bad relationship I was in, put in my two weeks at both jobs I was working at and called to let her know I was coming in two weeks (at that point I lived in another state 8 hrs away), then told my boyfriend at the time I would be gone in two weeks and he might want to get a job because I would no longer be paying his bills. So I got out of a bad relationship and have some happy memories with my grandpa.

 

[iwiw60]

How old is this neighbor? Lots of these sound like alzhimers or damentia warning signs. If you know of a family member maybe contact them and let them know. Otherwise you could contact a senior resource center and they could give you the number for senior social workers that could come and check on her and evaluate her. If you don't believe that could be it, I reccommend saving for fencing or planting a fast growing hedge. I would imagine she is lonely, and if she is forgetting more and more I'm sure she is also angry and scared. Although she isn't doing herself any favors getting nasty with everyone. But dementia and alzhimers can also change people's personality.

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