My mom and dad had lived in their apartment for last 10 years. Every night when i go check on them, she always ask me to take her home. she is very confused about the living arrangment. she thinks that we all live in her apartment and keep asking my dad to ask me or other members of family to come downstairs. she gets mad when my dad and i try to explain. how should i handle this situation, so she does not get more upset. she also calls my dad as her brother, sometimes. do we go along with her or correct her?
Thank you
Try to find out what she is thinking, and respond to that with information that does not conflict with her reality any more than you have to. Make up a stock phrase like, "By the way, where did you go to first grade?" Or some topic that she will happily talk about. Better a calm mother telling the same story for the 100th time than a mother being told things that upset her.
This is a very hard job. God bless you.