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[quote=Anonymous]OP, just to be clear, you're not even entertaining the idea of letting her go home, right? That ship has sailed so far that it might as well be on Mars. Other than that, I don't have much good advice other than not letting their day to day comments affect you. When dementia patients want to go "home," what they really mean is that they want to go somewhere familiar where they feel safe. But the heartbreaking truth is that nowhere is familiar anymore. We tend to project our own healthy brains on them. "I don't want her to feel trapped." Yes, she might be annoyed that she can't leave her AL (and someday her locked memory care ward), but in 30 seconds she will have forgotten what she was annoyed about.[/quote]
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