How do you respond when a loved one asks to leave memory care and go home? He thinks he is just there for a little while.

Marolson, usually a person who has a form of dementia, when they say they want to go home, usually it is back to their childhood home.

My Mom [98] did that when she was in long-term-care. I had to make up excuses, as she wanted to see her parents and visit with her sisters. I would tell her that her parents went to visit the old country, which Mom accepted. After awhile she would forget she had asked me, until the next day.