When an elderly parent in the nursing home says "I just want to go home"
Posted Feb 05 2010 12:00am
“I want to go home.” Nearly any person caring for an elder with dementia has heard this heartbreaking plea, even if the elder is home. It’s fairly well accepted by dementia experts that the “home” most elders want to return to is their childhood home, because in later stages of the disease that is where, in their minds, “home” is.
“I want to go home.” Nearly any person caring for an elder with dementia has heard this heartbreaking plea, even if the elder is home. It’s fairly well accepted by dementia experts that the “home” most elders want to return to is their childhood home, because in later stages of the disease that is where, in their minds, “home” is.
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