I have the greatest compassion and respect for you, taking care of a parent with dementia. My wife has been doing geriatric nursing for many years and she has taught me it is not the patient who suffers but the caretakers.
The other answers would be fine for somebody with their mental faculties but are the worst sort of poison for dementia patients. I think you have already learned the importance of going with the flow and that compassionate care requires lying through your teeth time after time. If she says her mother is coming to pick her up, use that as a reason to get her dressed and ready. It would be cruel to tell her that her mother has been long dead - it was bad enough the first time she was told her mother had died. Five minutes later she will have forgotten that her mother was coming and if you can make her day a bit brighter she will be as happy as she can be. Her life is all about serenity or agitation, love or strife. It is up to you.
That is about right, i think that is very fair
I wouldn't charge but since u have to put up with all that u shouldn't have to ask her she should offer either she pay or she don't get In simple.
You're charging your mother for gas? You ungrateful little twerp.
Have a taxi show up,for her next appointment then maybe shell reconsider
she an damentia person who can get very violant and she makes up things againced me that is not even there okay she has an apointment i have to take her four times an month thats back and forward fourty miles and i only want to charge her 15 dollars per trip and she screams and yells that it is to much and i am stealing from her when all i want is 15 per trip and she things 15 dollars can take her four times back and forward?? and she threatens to set me up and tells bad about me and threatens if i question her freinds i would be in trouble if i charge her 15 per trip for gas is it to much
