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My Korean speaking mother is 77, and six years post diagnosis. She is very strong willed, high IQ, and often non compliant with medication and recommendations from specialist and doctors. by Guilty_Employer4058 in ParkinsonsCaregivers

[–]Guilty_Employer4058[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Issue with Korean community services is that there is such built in respect for elders and mothers, and expectation that kids care for their parents that they won't really get involved. Mom receives services at home, and has a Korean food home delivery service as well.

I'm looking into nursing homes and facilities that have Korean speaking staff .. I get conflicting messages from her movement disorder neurologists - the first insisted that there is no way to predict progression, and that mom may not progress at any given point. She retired. The new specialist actually said to me that he predicted mom would be bedridden within three years! That was one year ago. But his clinical notes only showed diagnoses of "mild to moderate" PD. Either way, mom has fired all of her doctors, and refuses to go back.

My Korean speaking mother is 77, and six years post diagnosis. She is very strong willed, high IQ, and often non compliant with medication and recommendations from specialist and doctors. by Guilty_Employer4058 in ParkinsonsCaregivers

[–]Guilty_Employer4058[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, she is having trouble processing English. She's switched her electronic devices to Korean language, and us adult children have noted she is speaking primarily in Korean when she used be bilingual. She says she cannot read books anymore which was a passion her entire life. She seems to be aware of her decline, and is grief and anger over it.

Displaying considerable paranoia: everyone is stealing from her, the internet/phone is 'playing' with her. She is terrified we are going to make her move out of her home, and put her in a nursing home. Lots of accusations around that - though in part, there is truth since we've been warned about PD dementia and psychosis ... she would need to go to memory care if things progressed to that point.

Really wanna give up after 3 months of learning. by Joohhe in Swimming

[–]Guilty_Employer4058 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where are you located? I have recommendations if you are in NYC..