Alzheimer's Disease Support Group
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and characterized by progressive cognitive deterioration with declining activities of daily living and neuropsychiatric symptoms or behavioral changes. An early symptom is memory loss (amnesia), usually manifesting as minor forgetfulness that becomes pronounced with illness progression, with relative...

My mother struggles with memory issues and paranoia. She constantly loses things or she will miss place her stuff , asks the same questions over and over, and forgets things. The worst thing is that she swears that people who use to work for her is after her, she says they did things without her permission, but in reality she signed paper giving them permission,
when I try to explain to her that’s unlikely what happened that maybe we should go to a doctor and get tested and she gets very angry. Her attitude about life has become very negative, she has told me and few other people how she wants to move from Florida and go Georgia, last Sunday I took her to Georgia got a nice hotel had real estate agent look for nice homes in nice areas, first day took her to Coca-cola establishment and looked at homes she had fun, the whole ride back to the hotel she talked about looking at more house and can’t wait to move, the next morning she had her suite case packed thought we were leaving and going home , she did that for the last 2 days we were there for 3 days, on out way home she talked about the house and how beautiful they were and couldn’t wait to move, as soon as we got home she said why move I love my house smh ....
Does anyone have any suggestions about what to say, who to call, what actions to take? I am her power of attorney, but without her going to the doctor to be tested it seems like I can’t get anywhere the environment we live in is not healthy for her at all she needs to move the people who worked for her before I took over took her life and my mother can’t get passed that , and in her mind she thinks nothing is wrong , I had to quit my job to be home with her, the longest I can leave her is no more than few hours, I’m making no income and this has taking a toll on me physically and mentally