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[quote=Anonymous]Someone may or may not be stealing. The problem is that elderly people forget where they put things or they hide valuables. Is your mother 100% cognitively sharp?

My mother claims people are stealing from her when in actuality she can't remember where she has put something so she thinks people are stealing. So as a consequence of thinking people are stealing she hides things, which she then of course forgets where they are hidden and that she hid the valuables in the first place. She goes to look for the item and it is missing. So in her mind it confirms to her that someone is stealing.

It can be a sign of dementia, which my mother has. My son who is now 14 has regularly gone over and to find things for his grandmother for the past three years. He lifts the mattress, crawls under the bed, roots around in her closet, looks under the sofa cushions, etc. He couldn't find her wallet or phone so I also looked, my husband looked and we thought - oh wow someone is actually stealing from her. Two weeks later after looking not just in her apartment in the assisted living facility but also in the dining room, activity rooms, front desk etc. I finally asked her if she could have given it to a friend of safe keeping. It jogged her memory and she went to ask her neighbor. It was all there in a big purse along with makeup she thought someone also had stolen from her. [/quote]

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