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Originally Posted by Tim Hancock
My mom is 82 and has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. She repeats herself constantly. On days with no outside stress she does pretty well but some days she starts in on my dad who has no tolerance for it and it progresses into a ****show.
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My parents dealt with it poorly too. My dad with dementia and my mom treating him like he was perfectly lucid and being difficult on purpose. She had no wisdom about how to handle him. The police were regular visitors at their house until we got my dad out of there.
As Jerry said, "just go with it" is great advice. My dad would get upset because he thought Mom was siphoning money out of their bank account. She would argue with him for hours about it. When he came to me about it, I said, "Well, let's go down to the bank and take care of this." Once I got him out of the house I farted around, diverted his attention to something else, and before you know it, it was late, and the bank was closed. By the next day he had calmed down and forgot about it for a day or two. Then it started again.