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She thinks she's traveling to visit my brother's home and retrieve her dog (who passed away over 20 years ago).


She's actually relocating into her own room in an AL that's nearby his house. He has dogs at home, but obviously not her late one. The one she keeps on naming.


She's going on year 3 with dementia, faculties in slow, steady decline.


Thanks in advance for any advice.

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Be in her world. You'll need to make up responses as you go along. You'll never convince her otherwise.

The good thing is that by the time this series of events actually happens, she may have forgotten about her dog and be on some (equally impossible) loop.

I'm sorry, I know it's stressful. My mom thought she was going to marry Elvis and watched out the window every day for him to arrive.
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Your going to just have her think what she thinks. You will not going to be able to reason with her. She is in the past. May have to think up some little white lies when you get there. Maybe brother telling her he has company right now so he's putting her up in this nice place for now. Her dog? He is having a grand time with his dogs for now because this place does not allow them.
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