Hello All,
Sorry I only seem to be coming here with my problems lately, I'm just really struggling at the moment and need to find a way of dealing with it.
My dad, 85 diagnosed with Dementia 3 years ago, is now wandering every day looking for his other house in the next town, this house does actually exist but it's in a different country, he won't accept it's in a different country and firmly believes it's in the next town.
Physically he's ok and gets about could go out by himself and return home, although he did get lost on a few occasions. These few occasions he's getting lost is now becoming daily, the amount of people that have brought him home, even strangers, taxi drivers, people we know and of course the phone calls I get to come and collect him.
I should mention his short term memory isn't great but this will bring me onto selective memory question, anyway myself, my mother in fact everyone he's mentioned this other house too has told him the house exists but is in a different country which he won't accept. About 2 weeks ago he ended up at a family friends house, how he got there we don't know to this day, anyway he mentioned this other house to them in the next town and they agreed, yes you do have a house there. When I picked him up he kept going on see I do have a house in this town everyone is trying to deny me of my property, our friends have confirmed I do have a house etc etc.
This was 2 weeks ago, as I said his short term memory is bad but he remembers what the family friend said to him clear as a bell, I feel like dropping him off at there house and telling them to deal with him after they told him the house does exist in this town after everybody else said it doesn't. To be honest they probably did the right thing and I should do the same but my mind won't let me say something I know isn't true, and if I do go along with him it won't be long before he'll ask me or my mom to take him there.
Sorry for the rant I just need to get it off my chest
Sorry I only seem to be coming here with my problems lately, I'm just really struggling at the moment and need to find a way of dealing with it.
My dad, 85 diagnosed with Dementia 3 years ago, is now wandering every day looking for his other house in the next town, this house does actually exist but it's in a different country, he won't accept it's in a different country and firmly believes it's in the next town.
Physically he's ok and gets about could go out by himself and return home, although he did get lost on a few occasions. These few occasions he's getting lost is now becoming daily, the amount of people that have brought him home, even strangers, taxi drivers, people we know and of course the phone calls I get to come and collect him.
I should mention his short term memory isn't great but this will bring me onto selective memory question, anyway myself, my mother in fact everyone he's mentioned this other house too has told him the house exists but is in a different country which he won't accept. About 2 weeks ago he ended up at a family friends house, how he got there we don't know to this day, anyway he mentioned this other house to them in the next town and they agreed, yes you do have a house there. When I picked him up he kept going on see I do have a house in this town everyone is trying to deny me of my property, our friends have confirmed I do have a house etc etc.
This was 2 weeks ago, as I said his short term memory is bad but he remembers what the family friend said to him clear as a bell, I feel like dropping him off at there house and telling them to deal with him after they told him the house does exist in this town after everybody else said it doesn't. To be honest they probably did the right thing and I should do the same but my mind won't let me say something I know isn't true, and if I do go along with him it won't be long before he'll ask me or my mom to take him there.
Sorry for the rant I just need to get it off my chest