My 83 year old dad with Parkinsons Disease lived alone and fairly independently until he had a fall about 7 weeks ago. He lay overnight until I discovered him the next morning. Long story short he developed a case of Pneumonia in hospital and has been seriously ill for the last few weeks. He has now recovered from the pneumonia after being treated with 4 lots of antibiotics but is now still in a state of hypoactive delirium which has lasted for weeks. He has rare lucid moments where he will recognise us, but most of the time is sleepy, not really responsive, still seeing things and finding it hard to speak. He has a catheter and wears pads. He is being tube fed and only taking a few sips or spoonfuls of thickened water and yoghurts. He just does not seem to be coming out of this delirium. Doctors say it can take weeks or months to lift and he may never be the man he was before. My question is, does anyone have any experience of a loved one having long lasting delirium? Did it get better? Did it not get better? I just really need to know potentially what could happen long term
TIA
