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How Can severe Dementia In An Elderly Person Be Treated?

My mother is 81 years old with mild dementia, she was found on the floor yesterday, i believe she fell because she had defecated on the floor of the bathroom. i believe she was attempting to clean it off the floor and lost her balance, and was found on the floor naked. she was also talking out of her mind. we got her up off the floor and she then she was make good sense and having no pain. Everything is normal. My assumption of her talking out of her head,was a mild case her being in shock, is that a fair assumption?
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It is difficult to say. First, there can be a very large number of reasons for changes in thinking that are not dementia and are temporary. Urinary tract or other infection, diabetes or other metabolic or other electrolyte imbalances, thyroid disesae, or practically any other disease.

There can be things like that that cause the dementia to get worse temporarily also. But more often, it just is a bit worse for a few days and then goes back to before.

There is not a way to reverse dementia. there ar ways to sedate someone so they are less prone to do things that cause problems. (tranquilizers like either valium or like anti-psychotics.
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How Can severe Dementia In An Elderly Person Be Treated?

It is difficult to say. First, there can be a very large number of reasons for changes in thinking that are not dementia and are temporary. Urinary tract or other infection, diabetes or other metabolic or other electrolyte imbalances, thyroid disesae, or practically any other disease. There can be things like that that cause the dementia to get worse temporarily also. But more often, it just is a bit worse for a few days and then goes back to before. There is not a way to reverse dementia. there ar ways to sedate someone so they are less prone to do things that cause problems. (tranquilizers like either valium or like anti-psychotics.