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FF_Redux posted...

The core thought is to make the person with dementia to feel secure and safe in their reality, which contradicts how you should treat people with psychosis (where you shouldn't encourage their delusions), and you gotta think outside the box, if they do something strange, and it doesn't hurt them or anyone else but they still feel good about it, let them, which can be very hard for the people close to them to accept. Sometimes you can't really do anything about it, it's a very complicated, you gotta asses each person on their core individial level.

My recomendation overall is that next of kin should not become a caregiver, they should be the role the had, wife, husband, siblin, child etc, but have an outside party to help them.

Thank you. They actually had hired 2 other caregivers as well. But they were there for the daytime. So my mom would care for her at night. But she barely slept at all. It was so hard for her. Dementia is a bitch