My friend who's father is also in memory care, told me that she tells her father whatever she thinks will make him feel better. When he asks where his wife (who is deceased) is, she tells him, she's at the store, or getting her hair fixed and doesn't remind him that she has died. He likes to give people money, so they gave him play money and he thinks its real. Is this ok? I just can't seem to bring myself to do that with my mother. I'm fearful she'll wonder why I am lying to her. I've been mulling this around in my mind for days and haven't come to a conclusion. Does anyone else do this for their loved one with dementia?
It's tougher when the outside world lies to your LO, as what happened yesterday when Spouse answered the phone to a scam "alert" of "your electricity will be turned off in 30 minutes because you've not paid the bill CALL THIS NUMBER NOW!!" and he asked me to call it. The bill is paid up and there's a reason why I 95 percent of the time answer the landline phone.
My wrist tracker vibrates when I get an email, maybe they have a type of wrist band that vibrates for telephone calls?