I told my sister that mom does this in cycles and eventually remembers. I reassured her that mom DOES remember her, talk about her, and always speaks fondly of her. I also told her that this is just something that all us kids will just have to learn how to deal with. Any advice? Any good literature, articles, books on this? I don't know what else to tell her.
cadams
Big girl panties, CAadams, big girl panties. ;)
If she's like my mom, she'll have good days and bad. If I got upset every time mom was confused, I'd be useless to her.
Think of it this way, long time ago we use to use tape recorders and once in awhile something would get erased that we didn't want... like the Nixon tapes. That is how some people think that have memory issues.
When a person has dementia the entire family suffers. Not recognizing a loved one is one particularly painful aspect of the disease.