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Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 2228338, member: 591"] Every situation is unique, one that we drew on was voiced by a pastor (my wife's boss) talking about his moral responsibility to care for his parents - but there being no requirement that that be in his home. When my Mom started to exhibit symptoms of dementia (and the medication from the Neurologist didn't help) we were able to have her live at home for over a year with increasing symptoms; we had someone to help her get up in the morning and to help her prepare for bed, take her meds, etc. However, it did reach a point where we were unable to provide care. The fact that she was in her mid-90's was a factor, she was often awake at night and confused. Eventually, when she couldn't distinguish the bathroom from the living room we had her relocate to a memory care facility. Sadly, our visits meant nothing to her (not only didn't she know us, she didn't recognize that she was being visited, it was as though we were just another staff member), so we did not visit regularly, rather, on a random pattern to ensure that her care was as good as it seemed to be - it was. Something "happened" (maybe a stroke) a week before she passed and the care home owner suggested we get hospice care; she passed peacefully at age 97 about 3 days after the hospice began, at the home where she lived for the last 13 months of her life. For us this was the right decision. We don't really know whether or not it was Alzheimers because (at her age) the neurologist didn't think it mattered to know. Her death certificate simply said "adult failure to thrive due to end stage senile dementia". But it was very, very sad to see her gradually lose touch with reality. [/QUOTE]

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