Anger and meanness in mom

I have my mom living with me and it’s only me. Your mom sounds a lot like my mom. The difference is she was diagnosed prior to coming to my house thus I was able to get her put on medication to help but it doesn’t get rid of it totally. She still wakes up yelling at me that I am stealing her money while she sleeps. Constantly calls me liar and thief. I have tried many different tactics to try to maintain sanity and my compassion for her. I take frequent walks for short breaks, I correct her behavior just for me as she really doesn’t take it in. I make jokes or just say ok. I remind myself it’s not her but her dementia speaking. She no longer has access to all brain cells and is making do with what she has. I now have a home companion coming 4x a week until I can move her into an AL facility. I viewed a video by Teepa Snow that gives a good explanation of what’s happening and why the foul language is so handy to a PWD.

I am glad I found this forum. I am an adult daughter caring for my father with BV-FTD from a distance. My sibling in another state will not help at all. It is amazing how much strain caring for an elderly parent with early FTD can strain the entire family. My dad says mean things and has no social awareness. Blurt out inappropriate and ungrateful things. He is mean. I know it is the disease but it is hard to take sometimes. I am in the medical arena and I am familiar that this is a disease but I have to take breaks and only text. I feel like the Laura Linney character in Love Actually, where her ill sibling is calling her all the time. I put my phone on DND after he screamed at me to shut up on the phone. I have disengaged with my siblings and all my family who refuse to help. I limiting my interaction with my dad.