Mom has vascular dementia, she brings me pictures of my deceased father and tells me it’s her dad, when I tell her its my father and her husband she gets angry and hides out in her bedroom.
The other day she said when my younger brother was little, around 10, that he ran away from home and bought a house with a friend of his and she has never seen him again, its not true and we visited him about 6 weeks ago and she has no recollection of the visit. Her memory is about 5 minutes and then whatever we did for the day is just gone. Do you think its time for a memory care facility?
I have my step-mother in MC, her mind is like a continuous loop, the thing is, where she lives the people she talks to hear the same stories over and over again and do not remember them, even 5 minutes later, so all is good!
Drives me batty, but I just sit there and smile.
Sending support your way!
I definitely wouldn’t try to reason with your mom at this point.
Is she ready for memory care? Most likely she is or at least assisted living. Do you know what stage of dementia she is in? Have you discussed her symptoms with her neurologist?