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It is quite common in late middle and middle stages of dementia. There is another home in his head that he wants to find. You really can't know what home that is unless you have access to old snapshots. His mind is living in the past. As Oliver Sacks, the neuroscientist who studied the brain all his life said, they have a very real world; it just isn't our world.

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Taking my Aunt "back home" or showing her the house number, mailbox, neighborhood, etc,. never worked for my Aunt. What did work was distracting her with activity right before the time of day when the Sundowning would start: we had her "being helpful" by folding a lot of kitchen towels, helping with food prep (didn't matter if she got it wrong), playing a board or card game (rules don't matter), etc. Just saying that you need to choose where you put their energy if the driving around strategy doesn't work you need to do something else, or consider medication for agitation/anxiety.
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Yes, this is SO very common with folks suffering from dementia.
If driving him around helps him then I say keep it up, because this stage hopefully won't last long.
Several of the folks in my caregiver support group had to do exactly what you're doing with their loved one with dementia by driving them around and then coming back home saying that they're home now. And it seemed to work well.
Other times when someone with a broken brain says they want to go home, they are referring to their childhood home where their parents were and where they felt safe. And because their short term memory is gone, but the long term memory is still there, that is the home they remember.
There is nothing easy about dementia, but you must remember that this too shall pass.
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This sounds like Sundowning (where an elder with dementia insists on "going home" but the home they desire is not their current home but one from their youth, with their parents and siblings still living in it). More information from you would be helpful. Is this a new behavior that he suddenly started having? Is this the only odd behavior he is displaying? You really should take him in for a medical exam, he could have a UTI or some other medical explanation for this behavior, some of which may be treatable. https://www.agingcare.com/topics/19/sundowners-syndrome
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