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What do you do when your LO loses all touch with reality?My wife is not there yet but she is very clearly heading in that direction.It has me scared for her as to what is to come.And scared for me as to what I may have to do.

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Your wife may lose touch of your "reality" but she won't lose touch of her reality. It will just be different and it will be you that will have to meet her in her new reality and not expect her to join you in yours.
Does it require extra doses of patience? Of course. But it doesn't have to be scary for either of you, as long as you educate yourself about dementia and all it entails.
I always recommend the book The 36 Hour Day as a great place to start along with watching some videos from Teepa Snow(a dementia expert)on YouTube.
And if and when her care gets to be too much for you, don't hesitate to either hire in-home help or look into placing her in a nice memory care.
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Oh, Golly. No one likes that word "reality".
Worse yet is the word "Unpredictablity."
Can you tell us more?
How old is wife and when was she diagnosed?
How old are you?
What modes of education in regard to this disease have you begun? There's a wealth of info online. There are great tapes from Teepa Snow to watch on youtube. There are support groups on Facebook and elsewhere online.

Can you tell us more about you lives, when all this began, and what a day looks like now?
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