Anorexia Nervosa in the elderly
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After it became clear dad could no longer be trusted to live alone due to the eating disorder, he moved in with me. Only recently has the medical world realized that Anorexia Nervosa is rampant in the elderly. Unlike a teenager living with parents, they live alone so they can lie about how much their eating (which dad did) and they can blame numerous other medical problems for it (which dad did).
Dad is sane and rational in all areas of his life other than food. Then he's a raving lunatic. He keeps two scales in his bathroom in case one is high. The sight of food disgusts him so when I bring him food he takes the napkin and covers it up so he doesn't have to see it (while he lets it sit there for hours and hours). One night I served him spaghetti, a bread stick and a fruit cup. He ate the fruit and two bites of spaghetti then said he had had enough. We had a huge fight and I snapped this picture of him in the hopes it would embarrass him into eating. It did not. He still has to feed himself via the stomach tube with cans of liquid supplement. He won't unless I stand there and watch, which makes him furious, as in the fourth picture. Even if I do, after he's done he simply goes into the bathroom and drains it right out of the tube. This is why most anorexics don't get feeding tubes, it's pointless if they won't keep the food in.
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