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She Wants To Go Home

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Witbank, Mpumalanga, South Africa

My wife wants to go home, sometimes a hundred times on one day, we are married for 48 years and lived in the same house we live in now for 45 years, she must be hallucinating, but she may start with the same request two days later. So far I have tried to steer her mind in a different direction that works only sometimes to a bit later hear the same request to go home.
Has anybody any advice that I could try?

February 24, 2020
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A myALZteam Member

When my mom Alzheimer’s was getting worse, she often wanted to go home. For a while we would put her in the car. Drive around the block and then tell her she was home. It usually fixed the problem!

March 5, 2020
A myALZteam Member

I had a door mat made with my parents' name and
"Welcome to our Home" on it, and we have a sign on the gate with both their names on it, so my mom sees them every day. It helps some to show her that this is her house - even though she constantly wants to "go home". I also had a book made through Walgreens with photos of the house and her in the house and made the title "This Is Our House" to help remind her.

February 25, 2020
A myALZteam Member

I read that the best answer is to say “So do I”” “How about some ice cream”. Or something to distract. Distraction works.

February 24, 2020
A myALZteam Member

My Aunt does the same thing. Just when I think she is comfortable where she is staying in a memory care center with her own apartment, she starts in again. Most of the time it is in the late afternoon. (Sundowning). She can't figure out why her husband left her and she can't find him. My Uncle died 25 years ago of cancer. So I just go with what she is saying and then move on to another subject. It comes up again and again. Sometimes she wants to see her family who are all dead. She is 97. I am her only living relative. My heart just aches to see the progression and the confusion. She thinks she is going to live forever and is about forty years old. She wants to buy a mobile home and live in it. Obviously she cannot take care of herself and she would not be safe. Her right hand doesn't work and she had a stroke a year ago. I just pray and I will pray for you too. I know what you are going through. It's tough at times. Take care of yourself through all of this.

April 28, 2020 (edited)
A myALZteam Member

Sometimes I will take mom around the block and come back home and she will be fine Prayers

March 26, 2020

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