My husband (74) with dementia, says he wants to go to college for Forestry. Any advice?

Sherry, All good & you were truly blessed by a compassionate park ranger. Your account gives me hope & abundant blessings to you and your husband in all your environmental endeavors. :)

Thank you all so very much...On the day I was at the refuge..there was a donation box...and I borrowed pen..bought paper and envelope..I wrote a well worded letter of my heart felt thanks...with the rangers name and number and exactly the heart felt thanks I still have for him...I put a nice donation in the envelope..as he would not take anything from me him self...he said he has a grand mother...with this same thing..and he was happy he could help..in fact..This man sparing 5 minutes for my husband...has made a drastic change in my life....and that of Leo..my husband was ready to leave home , live with one of my sons and attend college...THINKING like a 18 year old, leaving home and going off to college...My heart and mind were twisted and I felt lost..GOD gave the perfect words to this man...and my husband actually HEARD them...felt them...and now FEELS he is DOING better for our environment that if he was a college man!!! .We live on the Eastern Shore..all flat land...very rural..we are on a peninsula ..sandwiched between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean...Every road leads to a Marsh, wet land, beach, river, or stream...There is farm lands so beautiful..and the soil so rich you can plant anything and it will grow to massive size, and beautiful...and tasty too!!! The commercial fisheries of Shrimp, crabs, fish, lobster are clams and oysters and more are plentiful....We take lots of photos all over the shore and he has over 3000 photos that he has taken of wild turkeys, deer, horse, tractors, farms, that I drive him..and he just photos everything...I am not sure hot to BLOG..and he does not know how to use a computer..all our grandies are 6 hours away...Maybe I will try to help him...maybe then he will feel appreciated in some way....to others...he has done pretty well...while we are here...more stimulation...here than home with so many around him...he follows our son around like a lost puppy..some days....I am dreading the future...hoping..but..I know..I am not going to do so good without him...so I am trying to keep him going!

It kind of does sound like an oxymoron. Wanting to be a forest ranger and do all that, but won't get out and mow grass or go into woods. Like I alluded to before, people with dementia can drive you sort of crazy with their delusions. To them, what they want is very real and achievable. (My mom sometimes says she is going to take a bus to Toledo, OH and get beads at a beadstore she used to go to 35 years ago) To me as a pragmatic person, it just seems nutty and impractical. I used to work in a nursing home, and also care for my mom who is 89 and has dementia. She is slowly getting worse with the delusionalism and foolishness. I generally try to distract her when she jumps on a "crazy train" ride. It usually works. Hang in there.