What kind of sedatives do you give the alzheimer patient to mellow them out.?

Answer 1

My mother had Alzheimers dementia at a very early age in her 50's. She never, never slept at nite and was always on the prowl.
When you start prescribing medications to make the Alzhiemers pt relax, you increase their risk for a life threatening fall.
Mom was still agitated even as she was taking meds to help her calm down. She would stumble around in a daze and get into everything still. The meds dazed her and made her a very high falls risk.
Please see a gerentologist or a physician who specializes in Neurology, who is reputable so they can help decide what is the best treatment

Answer 2

Having worked in the long term care industry for over 20 years,
I strongly suggest you seek a physician especially trained in the field. Pehaps a geriatric psychiatrist. There are many stages to Alzheimer's and twice as many effective medications depending on individual behaviors. Very often an Alzheimer's victim will react differently during certain parts of the day. Sedative medications may not produce the behavior most favorable. If I may assume the person is living at home, it may be the care giver who needs the rest. There are adult day care programs, respite care, and many various support groups available in the community for caregivers who need the rest. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Some of my father's doctors just put him on an anti-anxiety/anti-depressant because his OCD was so bad and he was so agitated over everything that he wasn't functioning even at his usual (low) level. It took a few weeks but it's finally kicking in.
I hit a pothole and he started yelling and screaming as if I had hit a small child. Same thing if you go through a yellow light. If there's a car within 30 feet he'll start yelling too. He screamed at the TV if they showed commercials during the baseball game. He's very paranoid, always talking about "they" --"that's what they do you know, those bastards". This has all calmed down since the drug kicked in.
I don't live with him so I don't have the name of the drug handy but I can get it if it's important. Send me a message.

Answer 4

This may be a completely wrong answer ... but we had our own approach to this when my grandfather was living with us in his later years and coping with Alzheimer's.

One day we caught him in the garage chugging down my brother-in-law's beer as fast as he could swallow. I believe my grandfather was known for his mischief in is younger years. I'm sure he was probably reliving some youthful days when he did something similar - sneaking off and getting a drink. We noticed that grandpa was a bit of a handful after a few beers - but if we let him have just one on especially bad days he wasn't too bad. He thought he was up to no good - which made him feel better. It also mellowed him out a little - which made all of us living in the house feel better.

We started keeping non-alcoholic beer in that refrigerator in the garage. He didn't seem to know the difference. Sometimes just the act of 'sneaking a beer' made him feel better (even if it wasn't a real beer). If ever we thought he might need a real beer, those were kept elsewhere in the house and were administered to him in careful doses. ;-)

Sometimes the trick is to figure out how to let them do their thing without causing any harm to themselves or to the rest of the household.

I don't recommend keeping ANYBODY liquored up - a small drink now and then (maybe for both of you!) might help a little! Just don't develop any nasty habits!!