How to Respond When Someone with Dementia Constantly Asks to Go Home

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  • @carmellagreen2919
    @carmellagreen2919 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    My mom wants her mom. She doesn’t always know who we are. She gets frightened. I hug her when she feels this way. It’s very frustrating. My sisters and I have been caring for my mom for 6 years. She is never alone. She had lost word understanding, so it’s not easy asking her these questions. She can’t remember 5 minutes ago. This is a horrible disease 😢

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Try getting her a lifelike baby doll or a larger stuffed animal.

    • @catherinerose1607
      @catherinerose1607 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That does help! I bought my mom a realistic looking baby doll. She would try to swaddle it and she sang to it. It was a great comfort for her.

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Catherine Rose yay!!!!! Success!!!!! I'm soooo happy!

    • @catherinerose1607
      @catherinerose1607 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@answersaboutalzheimers Thank you! She has since passed. She was a lady who always watched her figure. She didn't want to eat her cake in the care home. We told her she could have her cake and eat it too. She laughed at that. She never lost her sense of humor.

    • @jeanniepurcella8363
      @jeanniepurcella8363 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      😅😅

  • @josmelser9869
    @josmelser9869 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    My husband wants to go to Texas. We live in Texas. I just tell him I’d like to go to and that ends it. He doesn’t recognize himself in the bathroom mirror and tells me he made a friend. He talks to his ‘friend’. His primary told me if he keeps it up, let him know, yet he enjoys talking to his ‘friend,’. Since he is enjoying himself, how could it be wrong? He loves music, especially Johnny Cash, so I put it on. He sings to it, as well as, I. Then he says Johnny Cash stole one of his songs. I just say, maybe he will compensate him in the future. He is satisfied. My one son, comes every 2 weeks to stay a couple of days, do repairs, involves my husband and let me rest. I learned a lot from your program which helped me release anxiety & stress by my wrong ways of dealing with my husband. Your program has been/ and still is a Godsend. Thank you so much for your expertise!

    • @cindyrobinson927
      @cindyrobinson927 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sending you guys happy vibes

  • @TheMimiof7
    @TheMimiof7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    This video made me cry. My 74 year old sister is in end stage Alzheimer’s. She’s in a nursing home, and when she can say words…she tells me she wants to go home. Your channel just popped up tonight and I’ve watched a few videos already, and I have learned a lot from you already. You are so good at explaining this horrible disease.

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you so much ,Linda. You and your sister are in my prayers!

  • @terriephillips2294
    @terriephillips2294 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I wrote a very long post but deleted it. I live with my mom ( for 3 yrs now) in her home for over 40 years. She wants her mama to come pick her up and take her home every 3 min, 24 hours a day. She wants to return to a place that has long gone for over 65 years. Mom wants her childhood friends who are all dead now. We had a lot of friends and a house full of people, she misses it dearly, but people are dying off, or they can't come anymore. Mom tells such wild and painful stories that people leave hurt and never contact her again. I have become a proffecient liar to her. I box up her own stuff, put a fake table on it and pretend she got a package in the mail! Not to mention all the fake cards I fill out and give to her to carry around for weeks to read over and over all written by me! Talk about hurt over and over. Gotta go, she's on the move.

    • @kingdoc3262
      @kingdoc3262 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ❤🙏🏽

    • @kingdoc3262
      @kingdoc3262 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ❤🙏🏽

  • @esterjordaan
    @esterjordaan 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    My mother was in her home from 1983 till 2023. She told me that she wants to go home I lucky didn't know what she says. She had stage 4 bedsores or ulsers. Just lying can't walk. Sleep most of the time. I was looking after her since 2013 till the last. Her home was going home to Jesus Christ Our Lord and God. I miss her more and more every day and still can't believe she is not here anymore. She is with her my dad, and my little sister and aunty. So home means not only your home on earth but our everlasting life with Jesus Christ Our Lord 😢

  • @joybaal4393
    @joybaal4393 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I have this prob with hubby only at night when his brain is tired 😢most of day he knows this is home
    He always talks abt his mom and dad and brother at night ( all 3 are deceased)
    I tell him they are on vacation and we will go when they come home ❤️

  • @AntoiDuran
    @AntoiDuran 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I agree with your explanations about dementia always saying i wanna go home. I am a caregiver. My patients and i become a friend until die. I used all your strategies. And i am so proud of myself and i shes my first time to take care of dementia no one taught me how to care. But i able to make her happy. And i even get a compliments with her neurologist doctor. Once they're comfortable with you they feel home.

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's great! I'm so proud of you!!!! You would do great in the certified master dementia strategist course. Have you considered it?

  • @antm64
    @antm64 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Thank you for your "feelings of home" interpretation...spot on words of wisdom!!

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you so much for that. I hope you've subscribed to be part of our family. Happy Holidays.

  • @pintsizestories196
    @pintsizestories196 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Such a good video. I totally agree with what you said about them missing the feelings of home.

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks Jennifer. I hope you've subscribed to our family. Is there any other vi you'd like us to produce for you?

  • @gloriamarrs3273
    @gloriamarrs3273 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Thank you ever so much. I am finally placing my husband of 60 yrs. In a locked facility next month. Dealing with dementia for 7 yrs. I am 81. It is so heart breaking. I have lost my beat friend. Thank God for our daughter living with us. What can I be looking at for me as I say goodbye? Blessed for the facility being a close distance. Once again “Thank you “🌲🎄❤️🤠✝️

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Gloria, you will find the best decisions in your heart. Your doing great job and you've most definitely done your very best for a loooooong time. Sending my love and strength your way.

    • @suzannereeves7768
      @suzannereeves7768 ปีที่แล้ว

      How did you you get your husband into this facility? I just put mine in assisted living facility just this week and he doesn’t want to stay there and is very argumentative to the staff.

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  ปีที่แล้ว

      Does he have dementia? You mentioned assisted living, not memory care?
      I'm posting a video on Friday about this topic.
      Lie and tell him it's temporary, rehab...

    • @PaperclipProphets
      @PaperclipProphets 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      God bless you & your husband 🙏

  • @tinamcclure7984
    @tinamcclure7984 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I worry I am having a mental decline. I am 56 and have noticed over the last 5 or 6 years that I am missing words or mixing them up. Not remembering as well and this last weekend I was having a hard time knowing my left and right. What do I need to talk to my dr about

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Everything. Take notes on what you're noticing, and I would recommend a specialist in neurology. It can take months to get into a good neurologist's office. So don't delay.

  • @nancyvanzandt4488
    @nancyvanzandt4488 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    So happy when we are home. It makes sense how you have dug deep into the feeling’s explanation. Thanks

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, that's exactly it! They are longing for the feeling of saftey and comfort. If we can provide that, we have succeeded!

  • @MyScrapMenagerie
    @MyScrapMenagerie 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    QUESTION...My Mom was put into respite care because she was scared of my Dad. After a couple of weeks they allowed his to visit her. Everything was good for a while. They went for a walk outside, and she told him about all the wonderful things she's been doing, and eating, and how wonderful the staff is. She loves everything about the place. But then she started crying and said she wants to go home. She said she thought that was why my Dad was there...was to take her home. He has no idea how to deal with that, or what to say. All he said was that I was visiting in the next couple of days, and I'm coming there to visit her. So she said she would wait. What else could he have said??? I don't think she should go home with him. He is still in denial of this disease, and is not trying too hard to understand it. After a day or so of being home, I'm sure my Mom would be scared of him again. This disease is so hard to deal with.

  • @wiskeybear-vanislandbc1562
    @wiskeybear-vanislandbc1562 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    What can you say if they say that while they’re at the hospital (waiting for placement into a home). My MIL wants to leave with everyone when their visit is done and it’s time for them to go. 😢

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      As soon as the dr says you can leave, we will be here.
      Give her a stuffed animal to hold. He us probably afraid to be alone....also if you tell her that it's her jib to take care of that stuffed animal for a child recovering down the hall, please take care if it until we get back.....

  • @nancymuchiri6853
    @nancymuchiri6853 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Thank you for demystifying the....I want to go home...statement.
    My mother has been saying that often.
    I now understand what she means.
    She is 83,a beautiful lady, who has done great things in her life.
    I always felt like she meant something different.
    I believe that I will manage the situation better.
    Thank you so much.
    Love from Kenya 🇰🇪

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm so happy!!!! I hope you subscribed!

    • @nancymuchiri6853
      @nancymuchiri6853 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@answersaboutalzheimers
      Oh,yes,l did.
      Thank you again.

  • @graceperiod5352
    @graceperiod5352 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Home is relaxing. You can get really comfortable without worrying about what u look like lol 😆

  • @rachelmarie7705
    @rachelmarie7705 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My late mother said this ALL the time. It used to drive my Stepfather crazy, because she'd repeat it over and over.

    • @kimbabbles
      @kimbabbles ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My dad is like this with my mother. He’s gets so angry and frustrated. He needs to see this video asap!

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes! Show him!

  • @anttissy2773
    @anttissy2773 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What is so bad about my mom’s dementia is she is also legally blind. She is 95 and she has weak legs and has to be assisted to the bathroom or bedroom or wherever she needs to go.

  • @heleneg525
    @heleneg525 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    They want to leave heir current environment because they still remember their home. Nothing can make that better until they come to a point where they've loss long-term memories.

  • @andrearossi3386
    @andrearossi3386 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Makes sense . I hear it all the time she’s good reason . I used to say you’re home made her upset .

  • @hestercastlemansa2976
    @hestercastlemansa2976 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My father passed away 5 months ago. My mother, 86 years old, keeps on looking for him. She tries to phone him. She says she is worried about him, there where he is in the clinic/hospital. He died at home after a short sick bed. What do we say?

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You should reassure her that he is fine, maybe away or at work?
      You could also try having a friend pretend he is him and call on the phone.
      Try that and let me know....

    • @hestercastlemansa2976
      @hestercastlemansa2976 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@answersaboutalzheimers Things intensified. When she visits any of us for a day visit, she insists we pack food for him to take home. She gets angry because we 'won't taker her to him'. She doesn't want to go out because he will be home alone. When she does go somewhere she wants to go home because 'dad is alone'. She started packing up her bedside cabinet because she needs to go home, to him. We (4 daughters/sisters) are going to have a look at an assisted living home to see if it's right for her. We are trying to prepare her/ask her opinion but she is not interested at all. She is not communicating other than talking about my father - he is hungry, we should cook for him etc. How will she take being moved?

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Hester Castleman SA It sounds to me more like she is afraid he is hungry...did she used to cook a lot and prepair meals for the family?
      Maybe tell her...hey that's a great idea...let's cook together for dad and suprise him.....lest make his favorite meal.....

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Hester Castleman SA she may very well put up a fight moving but in the end she'll probably love it.
      If she keeps trying to leave, you may find that assisted living won't want her...too much liability, if you get my drift. More likley a memory care unit...

    • @hestercastlemansa2976
      @hestercastlemansa2976 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@answersaboutalzheimers Yes, she cooked for him all her life. In the last days he could not eat. He had liver cancer. We are in SA. We're planning to fly from Gauteng to Western Cape on the 13th of January. The reason we chose that specific place is my youngest sister lives close by. She is a nurse and her friend is the matron if the assisted care home. It is very small - my mother will be the 6th person in the facility - which means more personal care. My eldest sister, her current caretaker, is going on pension in March because of this dilemma and she will be moving into a townhouse in the same retirement village. My sister is not coping mentally with her. Would it be wrong for us to tell my mother we are going to see my father in order to give her cooperation? She is packing again today. Was dressed and ready to go at 8. Going to 'our other home' where dad is.

  • @conniebrown1953
    @conniebrown1953 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    You are the best teacher!
    My mom has dementia and I am so glad I found you to help me!! Thank you!

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Connie, I'm so happy I can help! I go live almost every night I on Tiktok....

  • @ichigobatakekakashi
    @ichigobatakekakashi 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My strategy is to take my husband for a walk. At the end when we finally really get home, he is usually satisfied.

  • @ryanburns6284
    @ryanburns6284 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You’re not going to believe this but here goes …. my neighbours drive slowly by my Mum’s house and stair in at her and laugh … mostly they wait until Iam not there so she’s on her own ( cowards ). She’s an 84 year old woman who has lost her beloved husband and has Alzheimer’s … the depth of evil in so-called ordinary people is staggering …. No wonder she wants to go “home”

  • @carmennooner2027
    @carmennooner2027 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My husband says he wants to go home, but he doesn't remember home. Periodically, he will remember a location from the 60's through the 80's, but nothing newer. He's been in the same environment for close to six months now and in the very beginning, he understood that he needed to be there, yet when I would talk about our apartment, or even the last two houses we owned since 2001, zilch. He's now in stage 6, and he's far less verbal and far more agitated. He wants out of "this place", yet he has no clue as to where he wants to go. I began by telling him that the place he now resides is his new home, and for the most part, that satisfied him. In this advanced stage though, even lying to him doesn't help. This has been quite a journey for me, and also frightening because I am 75 and noticing that I might be headed to the same disease. I have no one at all, so I am starting to make plans now for what possibly might face me later. All sickness and disease is cruel, but this one ranks high amongst the worst in my opinion.

    • @cherylJohnston-k4d
      @cherylJohnston-k4d 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sweetheart what you most probably have is absolute exhaustion from caring. It takes its toll. Is there anyone could give you breaks family? Friends. I feel for you although I'm in Belfast I went through the same with my grandmother as my mum was an only child 10 years ago and I am a registered nurse. The very last words to me were " we didn't fall out did we" I said of course not but boy was it tough.

  • @suzannereeves7768
    @suzannereeves7768 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I just put my husband in an assisted living facility this week. He doesn’t like it there and wants to go home. He is very argumentative with the staff and I’m afraid they could ask me to remove him. Can this happen? My husband can’t be so unique that his behavior is not unusual for someone who’s having a hard time adjusting, correct?

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes they can kick him out.
      I don't understand the second question?

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No, his behavior is not uncommon, but what IS uncommon is staff that has training. If the staff had the proper training, he wouldn't be having these issues!

  • @kq2191
    @kq2191 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Debra, how do you handle the intake to memory care, I’m looking at taking my husband this week, our family has decided not to tell him to the day of. I’m not slept trying to work this out in my mind? Actually yesterday he brought up a street address , it was a street he lived on 50 years ago, I just agreed that’s our street. It’s all very tricky isn’t it.

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm pretty sure I just posted a video on this not too long ago. Let me know if you can't find it.

  • @graceperiod5352
    @graceperiod5352 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Introduction could be turn into a song 🎵 🤔 lol

  • @hovawart16
    @hovawart16 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Is there anything you can suggest for someone has never had a favorite activity or hobby, and who has never done any work? She is quick to reject "normal" suggestions, and we're out of ideas.

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Was she a house wife? What did she spend her days doing? What about asking her to cut out photos in magazines for disabled children to use as a school project?

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tell me more about her life

  • @CraftyDawn
    @CraftyDawn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’ve just found your channel. Boy do I wish I’d found it sooner. You have answered more questions for me than I’ve seen in a series of other videos by other people. My husband has F.T. Dementia and he’s always asking to go home. Although at the moment he’s in the hospital, you have helped me to know how to handle the situation when he does come home. Thank you so much. - Dawn 🌅

  • @CreativeDR
    @CreativeDR 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My mom is in a home for the aging which she choose before all this took place. Now that she is in stage 5/6 dimentia. She's asking to to home to her parents home (my grandparents have been past on for over 20yrs). My uncle just past and she doesn't understand that either. Or she'll call me thinking she called the nurse for a change. We can go visit, bring the grandchildren and theirs and she's doesn't remember them less and less now. But the wanting to go home is getting more and more now. She thinks she must go back to her childhood home, which hasn’t been for over 40yrs. It’s so hard.😢

  • @marysusa6985
    @marysusa6985 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My dad with dementia lost his partner of 40 years in June He remembers over and over that she passed away and feels like it just happened the same day or day before. He also asks how the family is and has anyone died recently many times during our visits. Is there any way to relieve him of that re-remembering?

  • @kingdoc3262
    @kingdoc3262 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sounds very compassionately useful from an experienced caretaker

  • @mariolorbes2936
    @mariolorbes2936 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    BUT THE ISSUE HERE IS THIS…
    LETS SAY YOU CONVINCED HE OR SHE IS ALREADY HOME…
    AFTER A COUPLE OF MINUTES….OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT,,,,
    WHEN YOU COMEBACK-HERE WE GO AGAIN, SAME THING , SAME SCENARIO..

    • @mariolorbes2936
      @mariolorbes2936 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Come on….
      THIS IS VERY FRUSTRATING AND……..

    • @answersaboutalzheimers
      @answersaboutalzheimers  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Because you CANT convince.....

    • @marybutlin5605
      @marybutlin5605 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I wish I heard this 7 years ago with my mom. I always feel I could have helped her more. I miss her soo soo much every day and still think of how she suffered.

  • @carmellagreen2919
    @carmellagreen2919 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is my mom every day 😢

  • @graceperiod5352
    @graceperiod5352 ปีที่แล้ว

    Set up three large tables set them up that'll keep them busy for a while lol

  • @aprilpurdon8320
    @aprilpurdon8320 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Omg this breaks my heart so much

  • @adelinamadjarova7518
    @adelinamadjarova7518 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Too many words, too dramaticly presented, too many repetitions.

    • @jjs21582
      @jjs21582 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Don’t follow then. It is helpful to most.

  • @RF1972.
    @RF1972. 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So true