Please be careful with any dementia diagnosis. My father was at a caregivers meeting and met a woman who had a husband diagnosed with dementia. He was prescribed dementia medications which he was on for some time. Months later blood work showed his B 12 levels were off. He was taken off the dementia medication and started with a vitamin b 12 and has never been better. Not sure how someone can diagnose without knowing for sure. Wonder if any other patients were diagnosed the same and rechecked to be sure...probably not. We have to do our own research!!

Wow. that sounds exactly what I go through every other month, the uti, the wheelchair and usually the er because my mom kind of zones out for about 2 hours and does not respond to anything. She gets loaded into the ambulance, gets pricked for diabetes, gets sent for a cats scan, gets her blood pressure taken and there is no response or indication that she knows what is going on. They lift her arm for the blood pressure and it stays up there until they put it down. Kind of weird to watch. Maybe if the doctor could come to us we would not have to go to the er. They dont do anything for her anyway except treat the UTI, But the docs always tell us to bring her in.

We live in Ohio not far from Dayton. So far it is great. They come within a few days of calling and the doctor comes with a nurse or assistant who takes blood, Mom had a UTI again and usually I'd have to take half a day and try to get her and the wheelchair in my car and park and unload and wait an hour or more to see the doctor. Now mom's aid calls me at work when the doctor gets here and I drive five minutes.

I just read about visiting physicians pc on the internet but that appears to be for Michigan only.

I have heard of a system where a nurse or physician's assistant comes to your home but not the doctors. That sounds too good to be true with so few doctors -- GPs. Everyone seems to want to specialize. I could see how that could work in these retirement communities where you have a set amount of patients in one area and they go from independant to assisted living to nursing home.

have you every heard of visiting physicians? I just signed up with them to be my mother's doctor. They COME TO HER HOME!!!!!

Both of my parents are at a place where they have memory loss. My Dad will need to go to a home soon. I have arranged for a Dr.'s appointment with both of my parents, myself and a senior social worker. I feel the conversation needs to be held with all present. My folks won't remember much of it, but at least the rest of us will all be on the same page and hopefully get a clear plan on what steps need to be taken. This is such a rough time, I always have to remind myself that this is just part of the aging process for many people.

I used to have the same problems with my mom. The progression was, the doctor started to talk to me instead of to her, then she said i could not come in but she never remembered what he told her. Finally she lets me come in. The doctor asks her questions-- she answers which I sometimes contradict by saying dont you remember this? and then he tells her and me what needs to be done. I write everything down because there is usually alot of instructions and her doctor has the habit of going through options out loud. Very confusing for her and for me so i end up repeating what I think the final answer is. This is her gp. When she goes to specialists they generally treat her like she is deaf and talk to me instead. I am the one that brings her into the conversation. What really bugs me is when she is in the hospital and the doctors come at 6:30 in the morning. They tell her things but dont tell me anything and nurses have her sign papers that she is not allowed to sign. I have my guardianship papers on file at the hospital that she is at but they still do that. She cannot legally sign anything so I dont know what they think her signature is worth. Again the gp usually calls me ---- at 6:30 but at least he calls. Everyone else only calls me when she is biligerant.