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[quote=Anonymous]My mom has mild dementia and lives with my immediate family.  Lately she has been waking up in the night very confused.  She seeks me out asks me to take her to the bank, or the doctor.  Sometimes she wants me to take her to work (she's retired), or she says her friends are on their way to pick her up.  Getting her back to bed is challenging -- I have to talk her into it and she does not hear well so speaks very loudly.  In the process, she usually wakes up one or more of my kids or my husband.  This doesn't happen every night but is happening more often and sometimes multiple times a night.  The sleep disruption is not sustainable for me or them and I'm thinking of moving her to a bedroom in the basement and hiring a couple of aids/companions to sit down there and get her back to bed when she wakes up so the rest of us can get some sleep.  Given that there will be a LOT of downtime, I'm fine with the aid doing whatever while mom sleeps but would also ask the aid to do laundry and maybe some advance meal prep as well.  Is an arrangement like this workable?  Any experience with this?[/quote]

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