Sundowning - Difficult behavior at the end of the day

Soundowning Syndrome, also known as Nocturnal Delirium. This behaviours, often characteristic in elder patients and people with dementia and occurs while darkness falls.

In this video, we will talk about the risk factors on Nocturnal Delirium, it's causes, and how to manage it.

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By: Dr. Thomas Weiss

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[ddgitz]

This talk on Sundowners is very helpful -- *thank you* for posting.

[Cake]

My grandmother, she’s 84 now and was a brilliant person all of her life. She still is. She lived about as pure of life as humanly possible. She never tasted alcohol or nicotine in any form. Never took any pain medications or anything that wouid be considered to be unhealthy. She took an antihistamine pill for her allergy’s all of her adult life. I say this because I want you to know her lifestyle to help me understand how to address her sundowners symptoms. She has created the urge to search for her “missing baby” and she is so adamant that her baby is missing. She proceeds to search for her baby until we can convince her to lay down and get sone rest. Do yo think that a doll baby may help her to calm down or do you think this may only worsen her symptoms? I know there has to be a root cause to promote her need to be searching for her missing baby that doesn’t exist. My father and uncle, aren’t very good at helping the situation becsyse they can’t understand why she is having these feelings and I’m just trying to help them to understand how they can help. I know this has been back and forth in my explanation of her symptoms. I’m trying to multitask and I feel like your educated enouch to possibly recommend an approach that may be beneficial to our particular situation. It’s such a sad thing to witness. Like I told my father earlier this afternoon, it may not be realistic to us, but for her, it’s very real. I can’t imagine how she must be feeling when she’s having these episodes and these episodes are seeming to be happening more often as time progresses. I’m almost certain that she isn’t taking anything at all now for the dimentia that also seems to get worse as the day progresses. When she first awakes, she seems to have a grip on what she is supposed to do. Like making my grandfather something to eat. And to satisfy simple household chores like doing a load of laundry. A nursing home isn’t an option. But the episodes of her wandering off in search of her missing child is a constant worry. We’re in the process of installing some sensors on the exterior doorways that alerts my uncle, which conveniently and purposefully lives across the street from them. Can you recommend anything that may be beneficial to our current situation. I know a routine is as important as anything. What eise can you recommend. Thank you for your very precious time that you’ve taken to help people like mysekf to understand such a very complex disease. I guess it’s considered a disease. Or a syndrome maybe. Thank you if you can shed some light on what you may suggest. Thanks again.

[freebird]

At 4p.m. every day my mother cant sit still. She will go in the bathroom at least15-20 times in an hr. If I question her if she's ok, she says yes, why? I tell her that she was just in there and that I'm making sure she is ok. She tells me she wasn't just in there, every time. I've learned not to question her anymore, and just let her carry on. This goes on until 10:00 every night. I am her only caregiver. 2 years in so far. It's been a learning experience, no doubt. She is 90 yrs old this Novemer. 🙏🙏💕