Hi everyone,
This is going to be a little dark but I don’t know where else to turn. For background, my dad has early onset Alzheimer’s for 6 years (he’s now 60) and has seemingly been late stage for years now. He cannot feed himself, dress himself, is hardly verbal, has incontinence, and a colostomy bag. He had gotten very aggressive in the last few months and got put on the Rexulti which mellowed him down but now he will not stay put.
The problem now is that he hardly sits or sleeps and is constantly running into walls or falling down if someone isn’t there to guide or watch him 24/7. We have a caretaker two times a week for a few hours but it’s not enough. My mom and I cannot watch him 24/7 and we do not have money to put him in a home. My mom has been showing suicidal signs because of this for a few weeks and I don’t know what to do. I don’t know if there’s any resources we can turn to for additional help. It is honestly crushing us as a family and I don’t know how much longer my mom is going to tough it out.
I live in Arizona and he has some things (to my understanding) covered by the VA and Medicare. If we had the money, does anyone even know of care facilities that take people who are completely unable to do anything on their own?
Sorry for the frantic post, everything just seems really dire right now and I don’t know what to do. Thanks in advance.