Dad hearing a car horn and waiting by the door. No one else hears a horn.
Mid 80’s elderly man. Took him to a Neurologist to be seen and she wanted to do further testing and he refused. This has been 2 years ago since he went to the Neurologist.
It's usually good to discount other causes for what seems to be his audio "hallucination" or delusion that someone is coming to get him, but even if you are his PoA you won't easily get someone who is uncooperative to do things they don't want to do. You don't actually ask a question but I can sense the exasperation in your post. Are you his PoA? If so you can use the strategy to call 911 the next time he tells you he hears the car horn and tell the EMTs something's not right and he's confused and having a delusion and that he might have an untreated UTI. Take your PoA paperwork with you. At the ER tell them he's an unsafe discharge and uncooperative with care. Then ask to talk to a hospital social worker about getting him into either a facility or their psych ward for a confirmation of diagnosis or meds or both. If he doesn't have a PoA, you can still do the above strategy and if they discharge him refuse to take him home. If he somehow makes it back home, consider calling APS to report him as a vulnerable adult. Keep calling APS. Eventually he'll be on track for a court-appointed 3rd party legal guardian and they will get him the care and protection he needs. So sorry for this distressing situation -- I wish you success in helping him and peace in your heart not matter what transpires.
When my Grandmother was in her 70's she started hearing people knocking on her front door. She would get up walk to the door and no one was there. If anyone was there with her when she would hear it she would ask us to get up and go to the door and check, No one. She didn't have a door bell but sworn people were knocking on the door. She started camping out closer to her front door and the noise stopped. She only heard it when she was in the back part of her house or in her kitchen. This changed to car doors slamming and eventually to someone opening her locked front screen door and then slamming it. She had some hearing loss but she never gave up on hearing car doors slam, knocking or her front screen door being slammed. We put a sign on the front door saying "knock loudly".
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Forgetfulness?
Wandering?
Anything?
What question do you have for us?
Does Dad live alone, or does he live with you, or you with him.