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Hi!! I’m doing a cross country roadtrip with my mom who has dementia. I printed a map, and circled all the places we are stopping, and wrote what they are next to the circles, and drew a line between them. About once an hour or so, I ask if she wants to see where we are on the map! 🗺️ then I remind her everywhere we are going: “see, that’s home, we are on our way now! This is the hotel we are staying at tonight. Here is the place where we came from! This is where we are now. We have come so far!” I also got this set of door alarms, they are amazing and I sleep better because if she opens a door it rings a bell next to my head so I don’t worry that she is going to walk off in the night. Here is the weblink: https://a.co/d/0c2RMTQM When we have to use bathroom I stop at a cafe where she won’t want anything and I know the bathrooms are big and clean (Starbucks). I don’t have to walk around while she picks things up or fight with her over things. We go in, she uses bathroom, then she looks at the food and leaves right away since she doesn’t like it.