My husband has handguns and has mild dementia. Any advice?

My Mom told my Dad she threw the gun in the lake behind the house and if he wanted it bad enough he could go wade around looking for it. He pouted but gave up looking for it. Actually went to a gun dealer who sold it and gave her the $.

Tarajane, maybe Dad should no longer be alone.
You said you were at work, came home and he was falling apart after drinking 6 sodas? Look into adult day care for him while you are at work.

Sorry, your husband, not Dad.

He would fight that tooth and nail.....I switched him to caffiene free Canada Dry so he can drink his heart out now. I am keeping a log on his sundowning. Thank you for your input

hi anout the guns i went through this w/ myhubby that just pasthe was into knives..and lottery tickets..I had my action wkr get rid of them and I had the saying his bank acct was being brought down to 25.00 a day ..he also spent his whole retirement moneys of 35,ooo dollars then I called our ppc nd brought him in for evaluation sure enough it was vascular dementia thats when I started to look for nursing homes
thenthe first nh sued us for 25,000 grand..they thenlooked at our bnk statements which just had our ss in them
then came medicaid then mass health..and meals on wheels
then uncontrolled diabetes, hepatitis, high blood pressure
then another nh the last one where they overdosed him on metformin a drug that is used along with insulin..thenkidney failure from thst overdose from their dr's you see THE NH takes over all med personnel that you have
you see now i cannot even get his personal belongings
they conveniently CANNOT find them nice huh????

THANK YOU TaraJane! And, we do need to try to keep in mind that the easy problems have been solved already. :-)

I suggest take the gun away from him because if he has the gun in his hand even without bullets a person can misinterpret it as a man with a gun who's dangerous If they call the cops and if the cops see that he is armed there's a good chance they may shoot him especially if he has dementia and there's a high chance of violence on his side

I sometimes wonder how this all worked out. It's been awhile since we heard from Tarajane. The last I heard, she and hubby had bought a house out of state and they were moving to a farm or something. I never did hear how they were doing after that move.

I was wondering if guys with guns could be talked into selling them, explaining that they need the money more than the gun and they might be highly collectable. My husband had a shotgun hidden that he only used for vermin around the house (we lived up against a national forest) occasionally.
I sold it back to the gun shop he'd gotten it from, after he passed, didn't even tell my sons or SILs until afterwards. At one time we had a couple of antique guns, one someone had given him and one that was my dad's, but they were stolen in a house burglary. (That's another reason to get the guns gone--a burglar is more likely to grab it and shoot you than vice versa.)