My Father was diagnosed with Dementia several years ago but didn't seem to get particularly worse for a long time. 6 months ago he and my Mother went on holiday to visit family and she took ill while they were away which seemed to really upset him much more than it should have. When they got home again he was very confused and just didn't seem able to settle. We approached his GP and had a chat with him but nothing was done. Just before Xmas he began to be more and more confused and in a very short space of time has got so much worse. He now denies totally that the place they live is his home and rings me several times in a day to ask me to go and take him home. No matter how much we try to reassure him and tell him that this has been his home for the past 35 years he will not accept it. He is always restless, doesn't sleep well and is verbally abusive to my Mum and anyone else who comes to see him. Yesterday he rang me and asked me to go to his house and remove a strange woman who had broken in and would not leave. Puzzled I went over and found that the "stranger" was my Mum. While I was there she went into the bedroom and got changed and came back in after about 10 minutes and he accepted it was her but talked on and on about the stranger who had broken in. We just don't know where to turn. I am an only child and we have a very small family around. My husband is disabled and my son has educational special needs so, while I help Mum as much as I can, I am limited to what I can do without neglecting other responsibilities. My Dad is 82 years old and my Mum is 81 so she is finding life very difficult. Any ideas for ways to help would be very much appreciated