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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, there are no good options. If you want her in an institution they will insist on memory care and it will most likely suck

Try to keep her at home and up the number of hours

Personally I’d rather die from a fall at home than be locked in memory care [/quote]

Well, that's what she would say too. Just let me stay in my home and if I die from a fall, then it was my time to go.[/quote]

And if she dies after being hit by a car while walking down the side of the highway as she attempts to "walk home," is that OK with her, too? What if someone else gets killed in that accident?

Is she OK dying of hypothermia in the woods because she wandered off and got lost?

What if instead of dying, she hangs on long enough to be taken to a hospital where she lingers for months, too ill to be released, and finally dies in tremendous pain?

People imagining that they'd prefer dying at home tend to assume that whatever death comes will be relatively quick and not painful, or at least not painful for long. There are other possibilities, and they can be pretty gruesome [/quote]

Sure, these are possibilities. But unlikely if she isn’t a wanderer (yet). Personally, I would probably just honor her wishes to go home. [/quote]

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