Hello Everyone, I'm so grateful to have found this forum and hope to offer advice and experience when I can.
I'm 57 and the only child of a widower Dad who has dementia. I'd say he's in the middle stage of it. He is irrational and stubborn and is fighting mightily to maintain his independence. He lives alone with 60 hours of care a week. He insists on driving, and I've tried taking the keys from him but it provokes a terrible, almost violent reaction and he feels like I'm betraying him. He's never gotten into an accident so he says I have no right to take his keys away. He drives incredibly slowly and a lot less frequently than he used to. HIs doctor thinks he's ok. I don't know what to do.
I'm 57 and the only child of a widower Dad who has dementia. I'd say he's in the middle stage of it. He is irrational and stubborn and is fighting mightily to maintain his independence. He lives alone with 60 hours of care a week. He insists on driving, and I've tried taking the keys from him but it provokes a terrible, almost violent reaction and he feels like I'm betraying him. He's never gotten into an accident so he says I have no right to take his keys away. He drives incredibly slowly and a lot less frequently than he used to. HIs doctor thinks he's ok. I don't know what to do.