A district nurse called at lunchtime. She was asking my mother about incontinence (which she denies she suffers from) and her medical history (which she remembers nothing about).
My mother has had many similar experiences. She's repeatedly explained to various organisations that her partner has Alzheimers, and that there is no point in asking him questions (when I telephoned yesterday, he wasn't 100% afterwards who I was). They continue to do so.
There's no flexibility to the system. The questions have to be asked because that's what the rulebook says even when there's no chance of getting meaningful answers.
I encountered the same weird procedure in the 90s, when my father had Alzheimer's. For several years, he could fool just about any telephone caller--he sounded perfectly reasonable to a stranger. We couldn't get his own doctor to forbid him from driving until he ran his car into a barrier and had no idea what had happened. He tried to say the brakes had failed--but they had not.
Since then, I've read many accounts of drivers using the same excuse for such accidents.
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Date: 2014-11-19 09:38 pm (UTC)Since then, I've read many accounts of drivers using the same excuse for such accidents.
Who makes these stupid rules?
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Date: 2014-11-20 10:33 am (UTC)I think we're in denial about senescence.