My mother was diagnosed with alz in 2007 and has lived with me ever since; I'm single & have no other family members to help support caregiving.  I retired from my job in April 2007 @ age 57 to take care of my mom.  I made this decision because God sent 3 angels my way...I had a very stressful, demanding job and I could tell my mom was so lonely.

Things have generally been good up to the last 3-4 months.  I've noticed her removing things from my bedroom, no short term memory now, getting angry and throwing things at me; however, these things only happened once a week or so.  In October, I decided that an outside care giver was needed for 3-4 hours once a week, so I could have some time away.  All was going OK until mid-November when my mom tried to bite the caregiver as she wanted the CG to leave the house.   We took a break with the caregiver over the holidays, but this Wed. the caregiver is coming back.

Today, when leaving the house to exercise (try this 4 time/week), the neighbor's son came to the car and told me he had seen my mom down the street on the side walk taking mail out of a neighbor's mailbox.  Oh NO, now she is roaming down the street.  That is not good.  So now I am thinking I need to consider placing her somewhere.