Since You Asked: Dementia Caregiver Tips

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0500

Dear Lorraine,

My mother was diagnosed with dementia two years ago. I am her primary caregiver. I drive to her apartment every morning, I call her every afternoon, and I spend every evening wondering if I did enough.

Here is what nobody told me: she is disappearing in layers, and I am losing her in a way that has no name. Last week she asked me where her sister Ruthie was six times in the same hour. Ruthie died in 1984. The first time I said, Ruthie died a long time ago, Mom. By the sixth time I snapped at her. I told her to stop asking me that. She looked at me like I was a stranger.

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Since You Asked: Dementia Caregiver Tips