Posts Tagged ‘Violent or Aggressive Behavior’

Neither Mom nor Dad can care for themselves anymore. When Mom’s mental health declined, she took well to living in a memory home, and before Dad’s dementia diagnosis, my dad was a quiet family man. He never raised his voice or got temperamental about anything. Now for some reason, he shouts at everyone. I’ve never seen an old man so upset, and I’m wondering if it’s just decades of repressed anger or if it’s something to do with the disease. I’ve talked to friends whose parents had dementia, and none of them report this kind of behavior. What’s actually going on here?