Has anyone ever placed a Parent in a Senior Care Home? [View All]

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It wasn't noticeable until my Birthday that my Dad has a problem finding his way home or to places that he has been to for the past 25 years.

I sent him for a cake at Deerfields Bakery in Deerfield, IL. He has been going there several times a year for the past 25 years and this time he got lost and came back without a cake and he didn't even remember how he got back.
All he needed to do was to board the train at Union Station a few blocks from my apt. and then take the train to Deerfield and when he got off he would walk over 2 small blocks. That was not a big task but he got lost and I didn't mind not having a cake but he throws horrible fits now. That night I had a ticket to a Play and he tore it up and threw it in my face and then he looked like he was lost again.

In the past week he has gotten off on different floors in my apt bldg and left his groceries at their doors.
I had security banging on my Door asking me to let my Dad in and they asked why I wasn't letting him in. I told them that he didn't knock on my door prior to them coming up or I would have let him in.
They found his groceries on another floor at the same apt number but on a different floor. He keeps doing this and I am getting very worried about him.

A couple of weeks back he asked were Ramona was at that he needed to feed her and she had passed away but he didn't remember that.

He puts Valentino up on the counter tops which I have told him not to and then her starts breaking what little possessions that I have when I tell him that he can't do something.

He also has to be made to get into the bathtub because he will argue with you that he just took a bath and that drives me nuts.

I would like to find a Senior Citizen home that he might be able to meet a lady that is his age. He is a WW2 Vet and I am not sure if they have homes for the men.