Nursing home or in home nursing care. Usually if people have advanced dementia they will wind up in a home because they are just too much a hand full for family to take care of and their care is too demanding. Memory disorders are thieves that steal the sense of self from the victim. Families whose loved ones I took care of always asked me if their family member with dementia was in any pain and I would tell them no. All the pain is emotional and the family is experiencing that. Their loved one is trapped in a world in their own mind, generally their own little world. If they had pain from something like arthritis or an injury, we watched them for signs of pain and made sure they had medications on board.
I hate dementias and Alzheimers diseases.
