..it's especially sad to see my partner's Mom (will 93 in 3 wks.) slide increasingly fast in dementia.

A nursing assistant phoned just now to get her to talk to her son (my partner). Right now she believes she's in Germany ..in a small town that she worked in for relatives during WWII at a family inn in the 1940's. She really wanted to talk to Jack (rare that she asks to speak by phone these days) because she wanted know how to get "home".

Whatever home is now.

Jack cannot convince her that she is home, in a nursing home in Vancouver. He just listened to her patiently, helpless over the phone.

The whole dialogue was in German.
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