My grandmother is 82 and has dementia. Her case is mild, but it’s starting to get a bit worse. She recently started hallucinating about a month ago. She has been in the hospital 2x in the past week for different reasons. Both times, they checked for UTIs and found that she doesn’t have one. So now that we know it’s not a UTI, what could be causing this? Everything I’ve googled says that hallucinations typically aren’t until the later stages of dementia. I don’t think it’s her medicine either because she hasn’t had any changes in meds recently. Is this indicative of a certain type of dementia? We just got the general “dementia” diagnosis with no specifics. Any insight would be appreciated.
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Best of luck to you both.
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https://www.agingcare.com/articles/dementia-hallucinations-delusions-476869.htm
If the hallucinations aren’t upsetting to her then just roll with it but do read all you can to better understand what she is dealing with.
Click on the Care Topics at the top of this page. Scroll down to the Hs, and look for hallucinations. I hope that helps.