You’re still speaking as if she were responsible for her actions.
You seem as if you are unaware of the core problem and think that it can be “fixed.”
Your arguments are irrational and high handed. You can’t comprehend the problems
associated with Alzheimer’s, so nothing you’re suggesting will do the slightest bit of
good.
Try going to a home for senile, demented, and Alzheimer’s patients and
1. Ask them to stop doing something.
2. Make them stop doing something.
3. Get ready for hysterical and violent responses.
4. Get thrown out on your butt and carted away by the LEOs.
They will never understand Alzheimer’s.
They need to witness it firsthand in someone they love.
“You’re still speaking as if she were responsible for her actions.”
She may not be responsible, but that only changes it from a criminal to a mental issue. Either way, bad actions have to be controlled.
Her actions, regardless of cause, have a high capability to affect others. That isn’t going to be ignored by those people. Accept that now, because that is simply the way it will be. They are not going to allow her to cause them harm.
I’m not going to condemn her for being ill, if she is (some old people are just selfish jerks). But I’m not going to pretend that changes the issue of her actions. They need stopped. If she can’t control her own actions, someone else HAS to.
So tell me, how do you stop those actions if she refuses to do so, regardless of dementia or malice? Leave it up to the family? Assuming you gave them the authority to MAKE her do anything, her actions still need stopped. And that assumes they choose to do anything other than say “Have fun.”
If I’m in the area, I’m not going to accept that. My kids are not going to be endangered by her, I’m not going to be, and my property isn’t.