I have read lots of posts about people wanting to 'go home', but it seems my Dad has a variation on this theme.
He and my Mum have been married for 51 years and have lived in their present house for more than 40 years. He regularly says that he made a mistake and 'I should never have come back here' but apart from holidays and the odd non AD related hospital stay, he has never been anywhere else.
This comes up when he is having a particularly bad time - like the last few days- but we cannot get to the bottom of this. Today I told him that he had lived in this house for more than 40 years and he gave me that look that says 'just who has got dementia?'
I realise that you cannot reason with dementia but I wondered if anyone else has come across this as I really don't know how to respond to and help him with this.
Sue
He and my Mum have been married for 51 years and have lived in their present house for more than 40 years. He regularly says that he made a mistake and 'I should never have come back here' but apart from holidays and the odd non AD related hospital stay, he has never been anywhere else.
This comes up when he is having a particularly bad time - like the last few days- but we cannot get to the bottom of this. Today I told him that he had lived in this house for more than 40 years and he gave me that look that says 'just who has got dementia?'
I realise that you cannot reason with dementia but I wondered if anyone else has come across this as I really don't know how to respond to and help him with this.
Sue