Me and my 82yr old mom are in Florida she use to live here so I brought her back to see a few of her friends that are still alive. She does have Dementia beginning stages but since we came her it seems things just got worse. Not her behavior she has such a good sense of humor but not remembering anyone. When I get her back home and back into her routine will things go a little back to normal? Has anyone else taken loved one with Dementia on trip for cooked weeks and it was hard in them but when they got back home was it better? She is really doing great just seems more disoriented.
And any time you disrupt someone with dementia of their daily routine, you are asking for all kinds of trouble, as they all do much better with a routine in their own environment.
The very best thing you can do for your mom now is keep her routine the same as best as possible, and hope that once she returns home that she will once again adjust to her routine.
And let this be a lesson learned for you, not to take your mom out of her safe and comfortable routine, unless absolutely necessary.
Even without dementia, travels like this for the elderly are difficult at best.
That was her life before not now, her brain is broken.
My step-mother is in MC, she has friends there, yet I doubt that she knows any of their names.
Will she come back? There is no way of knowing, she may be even more confused when she returns again to a new place or at least it may be new to her. That is the challenge.
Good Luck!
Read up about dementia, you need a better understanding before she gets any worse, there are so any facets to this disease, which has no cure.
When one has dementia the routine of the same four walls and the same people represent a safety.
Anything else is challenging for them.
I would watch all the Teepa Snow videos you are able to kind of ground yourself on dementia and the mind.
I suggest you get a copy of the book Understanding the Dementia Experience by Jennifer Ghent-Fuller on Amazon so you can learn about dementia and how to best deal with the disease in general.
Good luck to you.