[BlueSkyJaunte]

My father's mother is in a 24-hr care facility. She has to be kept doped to the eyebrows otherwise she tries to slap, scratch, and spit on her caregivers, accusing them of "trying to steal her money" and of being "Nazis". She's wheelchair-bound and has to be fed through a stomach tube because she refuses to eat (FWIW she and her immediate family got out of Berlin before the Nazi stuff started getting bad...).

Thing is that she went from "normal" (she was never a very "together" person...plus generally pretty abusive and mean) to this state after falling and breaking her hip. It was like hitting a switch. After the surgery she just sort of spiralled into her current state and has remained that way for the past 2 years.

It's really tough visiting her and this has been really hard on my father.