Grandfather is having more. He was hospitalized with pneumonia also treated for UTI. Feeling a little better but wants to get ready for work he retired 30 years ago, thinks he's waiting for a jury at one point thought he was in jail and said he going to attempt a jail break. He also thinks im some lady that works at the hospital. So far relatively harmless but how should I respond. I tried reasoning with him but he gets agitated. Is this harmful if I let him think these things or change the subject?
Weather us usually a safe topic for us too. He also likes to watch the new and ill ask him about something we just saw. . Im just happy hes talking to me.We went thru about 2 weeks of one word answers. One other question he sometimes says the opposite of what i think he means. For example he will tell me hes putting on his shirt when hes clearly taking it off, or he wants to put something on the table when hes taking a kleenex off the table. Am i reading too much into it? Its becoming difficult to know what he wants since hes losing the ability to communicate with me. Any other suggestions?
I know at times I wanted to correct Dad's thinking then I had to keep reminding myself he has dementia, so correcting him wouldn't be successful. It would just irritate both of us.
If my Dad's thinking gets totally off into the weeds, I know I can bring him back to "today" by asking him about the weather. He seems to be able to keep up with anything weather related.