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Finally… your loved one is safely living in a care setting you carefully selected. You are comfortable that all of your loved one’s needs are being met, which is quite a relief for the entire family. Unfortunately, your work is not over! Staff and management changes at a facility, along with changes in your loved one’s care needs. These changes can often turn things upside down with little or no warning.

I remember the first time I noticed my mother had memory problems. We were watching a television program and when it came back on after the commercial, my mom thought it was a new program and didn’t realize it was a continuation of the program we had been watching for the last thirty minutes. I later learned there were other signs. Like the time she got lost driving home from the grocery store in a town she had lived in for 40 years. My mom lived in Iowa and I lived in Arizona. We would talk on the phone on a regular basis and she always told me things were fine. She sounded healthy and she always made sense during our conversations. I didn’t realize how bad things really were. Then it all came to a head.