Is your Elderly Parent Taking Their Medication as Prescribed? Doubt It
Posted Jul 06 2009 9:19pm
I learned the hard way that my mother was not taking her hypertension medicine as prescribed. I discovered this many months after she was diagnosed with dementia and probable Alzheimer's.
If I had paid attention sooner, would it have made a difference in her diagnosis? I'll never know for certain.
This I believe. If I had paid attention, I would have realized sooner that something was wrong. Very Wrong. This would have allowed me to get my...
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I learned the hard way that my mother was not taking her hypertension medicine as prescribed. I discovered this many months after she was diagnosed with dementia and probable Alzheimer's. If I had paid attention sooner, would it have made a difference in her diagnosis? I'll never know for certain. This I believe. If I had paid attention, I would have realized sooner that something was wrong. Very Wrong. This would have allowed me to get my...This is a content summary. Read the full text article and more at the CareGiver.