[Buttons12]

...She has driven people away in her family, including me and my bride. When I read stories like yours, I often think about trying that approach. Then I remember what my brother went through when she lived with him. Not every parent is meant to live with every family.

I totally agree with you. Some victims of senile dementia don't stop at driving you away, they also make false accusations, destroy reputations, open the house to predators, and try to kill you.

So I'm not saying it's always right to keep them home.

[sauropod]

God bless you FRiend!

[bert]

on keeping them home....

My demented mother (we didn’t realize it at the time) went to a very nice extended care facility. That was new territory for all the vindictive meanness. She was literally thrown out.

Before entering extended care, she wrote long letters. To some they were nice but to others they were just nasty. Today as I reflect back perhaps those that were nice but far distant were really not so nice.