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apoyaramiabuelo13

Hello everyone, I have my grandfather who has senile dementia and they discovered it 5 years ago. I live with my grandmother and my grandfather. My grandmother is the one who takes care of him but she has a strong character and has no patience and when my grandfather tells her who wants to go to work or something else, for example: who wants to escape, go to a bridge or a house that doesn't exist. My grandmother gets upset and yells at the truth. I think that sometimes she seems to forget or I don't know what she is. bad but still she yells at him and scolds him and tells him that it doesn't bother her and other things and I think that she thinks that my grandfather does it deliberately and my uncles also sometimes think that or they forget that he is sick, the truth is I understand my grandmother is frustrated and stressed but my uncles don't support her much in this like drying my grandfather or something else and my question is how can I help my grandma so that he suffers less or well feels less burden many times I tell him not to say anything and he just I humor her but she doesn't, she just yells at her and every day she is upset but I want to help her and also my grandfather. Let's say today we played cards and for the first time my grandfather didn't want to go outside, in fact he is rested now and sleeping. and I want to know how to help them and also how to distract my grandfather because he always wants to leave in the afternoon, please, I need your help to be able to help them.
THANK YOU

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