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Dementia patient all of sudden starts being angry at one person?

Caregivers: Dementia | Last Active: 6 days ago | Replies (19)
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@robertwills

Thanks. What I will say is the Alzheimer's patient is only directing the anger at one particular person. A person who visits almost every day. They are not angry at all with other residents, aides or other family members. There was absolutely no incidents between the two people to cause it. As Indicated above it was totally unexpected and just happened.

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Teri | @tsc | Dec 3 4:06pm

Maybe if the person stopped visiting for a while, the person who is angry would forget and react differently when seeing the person again.
Who knows what the angry person may be imagining or associating the person (object of anger) with?
Sometimes, when my husband is angry about something, I ask him why he's angry and he tells me. Then I can get some insight into how he's thinking.
My husband has no short term memory to speak of, yet he's developed a fixation on a certain person, that comes and goes. This person is his "frenemy", but sometimes when I mention the person's name, he asks me who he is.
We just have to go with the flow, keep our wits about us, and try to manuever through this maze of befuddlement with as much grace as possible.

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